With the Detroit Symphony having just announced a nearly $2 million deficit, the orchestra’s president and its new chairman seem to be throwing down the gauntlet at the feet of the city’s philanthropic community, as well as at the feet of their own musicians. President Emil Kang suggests that the current model for American orchestras may simply no longer be viable, and that solutions will not come easily. To the musicians of the DSO, who have already been asked to reopen their contract early, these may be fighting words. To the city’s corporate leaders, it will either be seen as a call to action or a desperate attempt to shame them into giving to an organization in trouble.