Before signing her contract as the Baltimore Symphony’s next music director, Marin Alsop spent some time with the orchestra’s musicians in an attempt to put aside any hard feelings and articulate her artistic vision for the ensemble. The musicians, in return, assured Alsop that they would “always give [her] 110%.” Meanwhile, various BSO board members have begun to publicly explain their decision to appoint a music director opposed by 90% of the orchestra’s players, and Alsop herself has described the controversy, which seems to have been about principle as much as personality, as “a warning light about other issues the musicians have that need to be addressed.”