There’s the particular thrill of hearing a talented kid from Hawaii performing on the prestigious platform of National Public Radio. Then there’s the experience of seeing the performance live as it is being recorded. There is the opportunity coming up for both.

NPR’s show “From the Top,” which features performances from the best young jazz and classical musicians in the country, is in Hawaii this week recording live shows on both Hawaii island and Oahu. The show is heard Saturdays at 10 a.m. on HPR-1. These Hawaii tapings will air nationally in January.

Tonight at 7, “From the Top” is recording a performance at the Kamehameha Schools Keaau campus. On Friday show producers will tape performances at the Blaisdell Concert Hall at 8 p.m.

This will be the fifth time “From the Top” has come to Hawaii. In the past 12 years, NPR has produced seven shows on Oahu, Maui and Hawaii island.

Sixteen-year-old Chance Yagi and his 18-year-old brother, Given, both students at Kalani High School, will perform Friday in the show at the Blaisdell. Both brothers play multiple instruments and various musical styles, including taiko, marching band and jazz, but will be playing ukulele for the NPR show with their award-winning group 4U Ukulele Quartet.

“We will be playing ‘Tokada,’ which is an arrangement of the classical piece ‘Toccata and Fugue in D minor,’” Chance Yagi said. “We chose this piece because it is originally a classical piece, and with ‘From the Top’ featuring classical music, we decided that this piece is perfect to match the style of the program.”

The Yagi brothers and band-mates Ryan Nakagawa and Taiga Benito have posted YouTube videos of themselves playing pieces as varied as “Pachelbel’s Canon” to “Hawaii Five-0.” Like all the musicians featured on the show, they had to audition for a spot.

“Since our first visit for a show in Honolulu in 2004, we’ve been incredibly impressed by the high quality of music made by outstanding young musicians in Hawaii,” said “From the Top” tour producer David Balsom in a news release.

The concert being recording tonight will feature singers from Kamehameha Schools Hawaii performing the Hawaiian-language opera “Ha‘upu,” which they performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Also on the program is 12-year-old pianist Jairus Rhoades from Mililani and 17-year-old cellist William Suh, winner of the 2016 Kamuela Philharmonic Orchestra Concerto Competition.

The Friday show at the Blaisdell will feature performances by the Hawaii Youth Symphony, the Yagi brothers and teen musicians from Seattle and Southern California.

“From the Top” is broadcast on over 220 stations to an audience of nearly 700,000 listeners.

“We have played at a variety of events around the island since we formed as a group,” Chance Yagi said. “We haven’t played on a national stage before, so this will be a good experience for all of us.”

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