School to honor its 'Music Man'

By Ben Wood

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Mar 30, 2012

~~THE LATE Shigeru Hotoke was Kailua High's "Music Man." Saturday, the school's music building will be named the Shigeru Hotoke Music Building in his honor. The program will run from 10 a.m. to noon. Shigeru started the Kailua High music program in 1954. He began with a choir of 16 students and by the end of the second semester there were 100, said Terry Kaanapu Kaolulo, one of his Kailua High School Madrigal Singers. "The momentum kept growing until the choir swelled to over 500 voices in the 1960s," she said.
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THE LATE Shigeru Hotoke was Kailua High's "Music Man." Saturday, the school's music building will be named the Shigeru Hotoke Music Building in his honor. The program will run from 10 a.m. to noon. Shigeru started the Kailua High music program in 1954. He began with a choir of 16 students and by the end of the second semester there were 100, said Terry Kaanapu Kaolulo, one of his Kailua High School Madrigal Singers. "The momentum kept growing until the choir swelled to over 500 voices in the 1960s," she said.