Ominous signs are looming over the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra these days, with accumulated debt mounting (expected to reach a whopping $8 million by 2005), controversy in the front office, and dissension in the boardroom. “Seven top administrators and other staff members have resigned [in recent weeks], including the chief financial officer, an executive board member and a member of the fund-raising department.” And the BSO’s decision to appoint a marketing specialist with no orchestral management experience to be the organization’s new president is being met with skepticism in some quarters, particularly after a widely-reported comment about broadening the audience beyond “wealthy old white people” hit the papers.