‘Choir’ Exclusive Clip: Detroit Youth Choir Prepares For Their Momentous Performance At Carnegie Hall In Inspiring First Look At Disney+’s Limited Series

The Detroit Youth Choir is taking their talents and powerful story to the streaming stage in Choir, a new six-part docuseries following their path to performing at New York City’s prestigious Carnegie Hall.

Decider has a first look at the new limited series ahead of its Disney+ debut. In the teaser, we meet Anthony White, the choir director who has worked with “more than 1,500 youth in the metro Detroit area,” per the choir’s official website.

Opening up about the Detroit Youth Choir’s tremendous upcoming opportunity, he says, “To perform on such a stage as Carnegie Hall, I mean that’s a wild thought.”

Likening their upcoming performance to their 2019 spot on America’s Got Talent — in which the choir earned the title of Season 14 runner-up — he emphasizes that his singers “have to work hard” for the Carnegie Hall show. And he makes no exception for his daughter, Shyel.

“If she wants to go to New York, she’s going to work to go to New York,” he clarifies. “I’m not going to hold her hand.”

The clip also gives us a glimpse behind the scenes of DYC rehearsals, where White, perched behind the keyboard with sheet music in his hand, guides his choir members. All the while, White knows that their work won’t just reflect on himself and his young singers.

“We’re representing Michigan, and the midwest,” he proclaims. “You know, and actually America.”

Directed by Rudy Valdez (The Sentence, We Are: The Brooklyn Saints) and produced by Blumhouse Television and Ron Howard and Brian Grazer‘s Imagine Entertainment, Choir spotlights “the passion, perseverance, and performances” of the DYC, per the show’s synopsis, as they “find the power to be heard.”

Choir hits Disney+ on Wednesday, Jan. 31. Watch the exclusive clip above.