Overview Professional papers of musician and composer Alexander Borisoff and his wife and frequent collaborator, June Starr Borisoff. Borisoff spent the latter years of his life in Honolulu, where he played with the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra and was involved in the local classical music community. Most of the papers in this collection are manuscript scores for Borisoff's major compositions, including his two works of Hawaiiana: “Liliu,” an opera, and “Impressions of Hawaii,” a work for symphony and...

Overview Papers of Viola “Ruth” Orcutt Bacon (1900–2003), a composer, instructor, and musician who taught at Punahou School and performed as a soloist with the Honolulu Symphony. The collection consists primarily of musical scores for Bacon’s composition “Concert Piece” but also includes other works, letters, copyright confirmation notices, and a phonographic record. Many items have been scanned and uploaded to ScholarSpace, UHM's institutional repository; see the ...