A brief description about myself:
I’m a freelance musician: composer, arranger, conductor, bassist, author, radio personality, and the creator of the Orchestre Surreal where I use the pseudonym Elvis Schoenberg, it’s a 30 piece orchestra where I mash classic rock songs with iconic classical, jazz, and film music. the group performs regularly throughout southern California.
I’ve been the recipient of several awards including:
Best Orchestral Arranger: LA Music Awards
Best Music Direction, For Frank Zappa’s “Joe’s Garage” by The Ticket Holder’s Awards.
Best Composition at the American-Romanian Music Days Festival.

I’ve written music for films, television, and the stage.
My concert music has been performed internationally by various chamber music groups.
My ‘Concerto for Tenor Saxophone and Orchestra” was recently recorded by the Chamber Orchestra at St. Matthew’s and put to video, and was up for Grammy consideration:

Also a novelist, my first published work, a sci-fi novel “Falling From Eden, Inc.” After receiving the runner up in the sci-fi category at the Los Angeles Book Festival and the first honorable mention at the New England book festival.
It made it onto the Amazon international bestseller list:

I’m also an exercise junky, I workout daily and I teach group fitness classes at Gold’s Gym.

I've traveled all over the world usually with bands or various music gigs. So often my stay was short. I like learning about the history of places and the weirder and more tumultuous the stories the better. I remember going to Malta that had a surprisingly interesting history.

Why this property?
When I first saw this property I thought what a fantastic place. Even though it was in need of a lot of repair, It had such an amazing character that I wanted to see it brought back to life and have it flourish again. It took a lot of work, and we are still constantly improving things.
It’s an awesome house that was built by the finest craftsmen of their day. There are all kinds of hidden gems, the leaded glass windows, the wood floors that in some rooms are all one plank long and have no seams.

The house is large and gives families and groups the opportunity to all congregate and experience being together in one place and still have a lot of space to do separate activities.
The patio has a BBQ and is a nice place to be when the weather is nice. When the weather gets colder there are seven fireplaces: five downstairs and two upstairs in each of the corner bedrooms.
In the parlor is a piano for the musically inclined.
There is an indoor putting green if you want to practice your short game.
In general it’s a fun space to be in.