Conductor Candidates Take Center Stage ; Robert Moody Relishes the Challenge of Keeping Orchestra Music Relevant in the 21st Century.

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Robert Moody has enough experience to know that he had better not put on airs when he takes the podium to lead the Portland Symphony Pops in a program of movie music next weekend at Merrill Auditorium.

"As the person on the podium, you need to be yourself," said Moody, guest conductor and candidate for the job of conductor and music director of the PSO. "The moment a young conductor tries to put on airs of a great, aged maestro is the moment they will just kill him. The switch will turn off instantly."

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Conductor Candidates Take Center Stage ; Robert Moody Relishes the Challenge of Keeping Orchestra Music Relevant in the 21st Century.

And so when Moody arrives on the Merrill stage on Saturday, he will try to relax and just be himself: a 38-year-old man whose first introduction to...

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