I’m beside myself. (At today’s Grand Ave Arts: All Access.)

Vinny’s pose of the day.

A musical project: Write a piece every day from October 14 until my birthday, October 29. Here are two of the first four.

On the air now. Live broadcast of Mahler’s Second Symphony by @PacificSymphony. Stream at classicalcalifornia.org.

Join me tonight (Friday, October 2) for a live broadcast of Mahler's Second Symphony by @PacificSymphony conducted by @ShelleyConduct. 8pm PT on KUSC, Los Angeles; KDFC, San Francisco; streaming at classicalcalifornia.org. classicalcalifornia.org/even…

Downtown LA

Early evening at the Music Center.

Our 40th anniversary, September 14. LOVE YOU, SWEETIE! Song: Everything Else Is Easy, Words and Music by Alan Chapman, performed by Karen Benjamin & Alan Chapman, from our CD Songs of Life, Love & Antelopes (1993).

Tonight’s rather amazing sky.

Finally said farewell to this long unused dinosaur yesterday.

Happy birthday Igor! (portrait by Picasso, 1920)

I was looking for the composition date of a Mozart flute quartet.

At a concert in Logroño, Spain, an opportunity to hear and meet the “Paganini of the castanets,” Lucero Tena.

Reposted in 2024 for the 200th anniversary of the premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, a performance from 2020 with Jake Chapman.

Delightful preconcert conversations with superstar mandolinist @aviavital, performing a new concerto by Fazil Say this weekend with @PacificSymphony.

Duck o’ the Day

Happy #StarWarsDay

Preconcert conversations with stage director Eric Einhorn. Excited to see tonight’s performance by @PacificSymphony.

Come visit Classical California at the LA Times Festival of Books on the USC campus. We’ll be there again tomorrow (Sunday). And if you want you can ask me a question!