Ten years on Hill Avenue
This young man tuned up his cello onstage as The Pasadena Conservatory of Music celebrated on Saturday its first decade at 100 N. Hill Ave., where it hosts its 1,250 students. But with a need to expand, the PCM also celebrated acquisition of a new building just north of the old one on Hill, and launched a $7.5 million endowment campaign for further improvements, over $2 million of which has already been raised during a quiet start-up phase.
Actress Jane Kaczmarek, whose kids are students at the conservatory and who has studied there herself, is leading the fundraising drive.