She continued studying piano and voice in California and played in a jazz band.
[1] Aborn continued her studies at the American Conservatory in Chicago under John Palmer and was awarded a gold medal for composition at graduation.
She composed a number of commissioned works, and her music has been played and recorded in the United States, China and Europe.
[2] For many years, Aborn was the organist, director of music and composer-in-residence at the Unitarian Universalist Church, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unity Temple.
She married Harry Busck, an antiquarian book seller who died in 1999,[3] and had two daughters.