“Determination is just one quality Allison Vulgamore will need to run the $45 million-a-year organization successfully. Charisma wouldn’t hurt, either, given the orchestra’s $3.4 million deficit last season and a predicted shortfall this season as high as $7.5 million; an endowment market value of $120 million, half of what was hoped for by this time; a musical-leadership transition requiring great finesse; and, already in this young season, thousands of empty seats.”