SAN DIEGO (CNS) – Pacific Beach’s Crown Point Junior Music Academy Friday broke ground on its classroom and music center while honoring the legacy of the school’s violin academy founder.
The whole site modernization project for the Universal Transitional Kindergarten to 5th grade school was kicked off with San Diego Unified School District Superintendent Lamont Jackson, district leaders, and the family of the late Stephen Luchs, the originator of the school’s violin academy who died in April.
“Stephen Luchs’ dream for students and parents to be involved in music and learning played a key role in the upcoming music center at CPJMA,” Jackson said. “We are so grateful that the renovations to our aging buildings will be influenced by a beloved teacher who cared so much about music and our school community.”
CPJMA became a music academy in 2008, after teacher Luchs brought the Suzuki Violin…
