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The origins of Hui Kawaihau date to Prince William Pitt Leleiohoku II, the youngest of the musically talented “Nā Lani ‘Ehā” (the royal four) siblings that included King Kalākaua, Queen Liliʻuokalani and Princess Likelike. They each wrote and performed music, most often as part their individual glee clubs.[1] In 1876, Leleiohoku II formed the Kawaihau Glee Club. Curtis P. Iaukea was one of his members, " ... 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 ʻĀinahau, 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 days when “Wine, Women and Song” were the rule of the day."[2]


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 days when “Wine, Women and Song” were the rule of the day."

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Troutman 2016, p. 29

p=29 Glee clubs typically featured a chorus of voices with instrumental accompaniment and entertained both the aliʻi and the makaʻāinana.[3] Prince Leleiōhoku, reported to be “an expert on the guitar,” organized one of the earliest and most influential such guitar groups, the Kawaihau Glee Club, in 1876

Troutman 2016, p. 65 By 1905, Sam Nainoa, whose violin,as we have seen, may have helped inspire his cousin’s kīkā kila, was managing the Kawaihau Glee Club, a string band and vocal group that performed regularly at the Hawaiian Hotel.

Hui Kawaihau

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

Bibliography

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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. ^ Carr 2014, p. 162.
  2. ^ a b Iaukea 2011, p. 63.
  3. ^ "Commoner, populace, people in general; citizen""maka.ʻāi.nana". wehewehe.org. Hawaiian Dictionaries.

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