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The origins of Hui Kawaihau date to Prince Leleiohoku II, who created a musical group under that name in 1876.

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"Bordering the main driveway that fronts Washington Place on the makai side and within easy access from the south portico of the Mansion, stood a vine-covered Arbor where the Queen often sat of early mornings. And with an Autoharp or Zither, while away the time by singing softly to herself familiar Hawaiian songs and airs since the days of the Merry Monarch. It was most fascinating to sit and listen to her, as she was still in good voice, the tone, expression and rhythm, perfect."

"It reminded me of the days when, as a member of the Kawaihau Glee Club,sponsored by Prince Leleiohoku, the younger brother of King Kalakaua and Queen Liliuokalani, we used to go out of evenings with a new song the Prince had composed and make the rounds. First on King Kalakaua at Iolani Palace; then to Washington Place to serenade Princess Liliuokalani, and even as far as “Ainahau,” the Waikiki residence of Princess Likelike. Reaching home again at “Kaakopua” on Emma Street, where the Prince made his residence with his Mother by adoption, Princess Ruth Keelikolani, half sister of the Fourth and Fifth Kamehamehas, in the“wee small hours of the morning.”Happy days those were; the dayswhen “Wine, Women and Song” were the rule of the day."

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Hui Kawaihau

  • "Music at the zoo - the Kawaihau Orchestra". The Honolulu Advertiser. May 28, 1905.

Bibliography

pp=50-51

King Kalakaua entered into the business, taking a one-quarter interest in the Makee Sugar Company of Kauai, and in 1877 promoting the formation of the Kawaihau Hui, an association composed mainly of personal friends and retainers of the king, whose purpose was to grow sugar cane to be ground on shares at the mill of the above-mentioned company. Nothing of much permanent value resulted from these Hawaiian activities. The Kawaihau Hui went out of existence about 1881; its property and leases passed into the control of the Makee Sugar Company.

References

  1. ^ Iaukea 2011, p. 63

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