PASSINGS : Clifford Vaughan, Organist, Composer

Clifford Vaughan, 94, organist and composer who also scored for films and television. Vaughan was educated at the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music and played organ at the famous Broad and Arch Methodist Church there. He was musical director for dancers Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn in Los Angeles where he also played organ at Mt. Hollywood Congregational Church. Among his 200 compositions for organ were five symphonies, two of which were performed in public. He also wrote a violin concerto performed in San Francisco. For films and television he scored “Comanche,” “Flash Gordon,” “BF’s Daughter” and “A Thousand and One Nights,” among others. In Arcadia on Monday.