Sunday Feature: A Symphony for Detroit

Petroc Trelawny visits the American city of Detroit to find at how the ravages of economic decline have affected the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. At the start of 2011, the city's grand Orchestra Hall lay empty, the only noise coming from Detroit Symphony Orchestra was from the players picketing on the street outside. Their six-month strike ranked as one of the most bitter in American musical history, with players accusing management of effectively trying to erase decades of proud artistic endeavour, and managers pleading that the current orchestral model just doesn't pay. Now the strike is over and players and management are reflecting on what happened and how they should face the future, both as an orchestra and as a city