The plan was for this select group of youths to perform with their adult counterparts at a concert in May, according to the report by Scott Pelley. But Trump’s executive order against diversity programs forced them to scuttle the performance, depriving the youths of the unique opportunity.

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So 60 Minutes — whose parent company announced last month that it was rolling back some of its own DEI policies — decided to stage its own concert, instead.

The CBS newsmagazine gathered the youths along with retired musicians from the Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, West Point, the Naval Academy and the Marines to perform at a concert hall rented by Equity Arc. Sunday’s episode showed the orchestra playing “Gallop” by Dimitri Shostakovich under the leadership of conductor Rodney Dorsey of Florida State University.

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Their full concert can be found here or here.