The UH Manoa Music Department will remember Raymond Vaught <http://www.hawaii.edu/uhmmusic/faculty/Vaught.htm> and his wife, Marion Vaught, at a concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 28, at Orvis Auditorium.

The program, which will be open to the public at no charge, will include performances by the Galliard String Quartet, the Hawaii Vocal Arts Ensemble, Partners in Time, and singers from Hawaii Opera Theatre.

Raymond Vaught was a music professor at the University of Hawaii from 1955 until his retirement in 1979. He played the violin with the Honolulu Symphony from 1956 to 1987. He created the University of Hawaii early music program, Collegium Musicum, and he founded the Honolulu String Quartet. Vaught was a music and drama reviewer for The Honolulu Advertiser and also was an early member of the Honolulu Chamber Music Group, the forerunner of the Honolulu Chamber Music Series.

After his retirement, he continued to lecture on opera and play the violin. He passed away in 2000.

Marion Newbury Vaught, a longtime resident of Honolulu and patron of the arts, died Monday, May 12, 2008 at the age of 92. After moving to Hawaii in 1951, Marion served as a librarian in the music department of the Library of Hawaii, the precursor to the Hawaii State Library. In 1954 she went to Japan as an Army librarian in the special services library. Two years later she returned to Honolulu and a job that she loved. Marion retired from the Hawaii State Library in 1979 after twenty-six years serving as head of the fine arts and audio-visual section. She was an active volunteer, devoting her time to Friends of the Library, St. Francis Hospice and the Hawaii Opera Theater.

Marion was born in Mobile, Alabama. She attended Louisiana State University on a flute scholarship and graduated with baccalaureate degrees in music and English, as well as a masters degree in library science. She played in the LSU orchestra eight years. While at LSU Marion joined the Sigma Phi chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota, an international music fraternity. Her enthusiasm and support of SAI continued throughout her life.

Marion played the flute for the Honolulu Symphony for four years, where she met her husband.

The concert will include:

• Puccini: Tra voi, belle from Manon Lescaut

• Dvorak: Song to the Moon from Rusalka

• Puccini: Nessun dorma from Turandot

• Borodin: String Quartet No. 2 (III. Notturno)

• Ravel: String Quartet in F Major (I. Modéré - trés doux)

• Gwyneth Walker: Psalm 23

• Randall Thompson: Alleluia

• Charles Villiers Stanford: Beati quorum via

• Verdi: Va, Pensiero from Nabucco

• Traditional Bulgarian: Krivo Sadovsko Horo

• Souren Baronian: Time and Time Again