Editing Paul Paray (section)

===Conductor===
According to ''Grove'', Paray gained a reputation as "a reliable conductor in a wide range of the classical repertory".<ref name=grove/> The British magazine ''[[Gramophone (magazine)|Gramophone]]'', reviewing the release of his Mercury recordings on 45 CDs, classed him as a great conductor and said that he created a magnificent ensemble during his ten years as the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's music director.<ref>Cowan, Rob and James Jolly [https://www.gramophone.co.uk/podcasts/article/paul-paray-the-art-of-the-great-conductor "Paul Paray: The art of the great conductor"], ''Gramophone'', 29 July 2022</ref> ''[[The New York Times]]'' said of him, "He was credited with establishing the Detroit Symphony as a thoroughly professional ensemble of national stature, and within two years after taking it over, he brought it to New York for its first concert here".<ref name=nyt>[https://www.nytimes.com/1979/10/13/archives/paul-paray-leader-of-orchestras-93-appeared-frequently-in-new-york.html "Paul Paray"], ''The New York Times'', 13 October 1979, p. 34</ref> The same paper remarked "Mr Paray limited his conducting of 20th‐century works to those of a conservative stamp".<ref name=nyt/>