Editing Paul Paray (section)

===1939–1952===
The French government sent Paray to America to represent France at the [[1939 New York World's Fair|1939 World’s Fair]], conducting the [[New York Philharmonic Orchestra]]. He made a sufficiently strong impression to be offered the post of co-conductor of the [[NBC Symphony Orchestra]] with Toscanini, but chose to return to France, just as the Second World War was about to start.<ref name=dp/> The Colonne and Lamoureux Orchestras had merged to form a single ensemble, and Paray agreed to share its musical direction jointly with [[Eugène Bigot]]. After the German invasion of France in 1940 the Nazi administration wished to drop the name Colonne because the orchestra's founder, [[Edouard Colonne]], was of Jewish descent. Paray resigned and refused to appear again in occupied Paris. In [[Limoges]] and [[Marseille]] in [[Vichy France]] he conducted French Radio’s Orchestre National. Asked to identify the Jewish members of the orchestra, he refused, resigned and moved to neutral [[Monaco]].<ref name=dp/> According to Patmore, in Monte Carlo Paray helped many musicians and became an active member of the French resistance. He later criticised other musicians, most conspicuously [[Charles Munch (conductor)|Charles Munch]] and [[Arthur Honegger]], who remained in Paris; the biographer [[D. Kern Holoman]] gives a different angle on this, writing that Paray stayed safely in Monte Carlo while Munch and Honegger, despite impeccable and personally dangerous anti-Nazi credentials, had the more challenging time by remaining in Paris. After a lawsuit, Paray had to retract his defamations and apologise. Holoman attributes Paray's animus against Munch to "simple jealousy" of the latter's professional eminence, outstripping his own.<ref>Holoman, pp. 70–72</ref>

Paray married his long-term partner, Yolande Falck in 1942.<ref>Oron, Aryeh. [https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Paray-Paul.htm " Paul Paray (Conductor, Organ, Composer)"], ''Bach Cantatas'', 2013</ref> Returning to Paris after the [[Liberation of Paris|Liberation]] he once again directed the Colonne Orchestra between 1945 and 1952. He toured Europe with the [[Vienna Philharmonic]]. He conducted the [[Israel Philharmonic Orchestra]] in 1949 and was invited back every year, continuing to appear with the orchestra until shortly before his death. Following a successful appearance in America in 1951 with the recently reconstituted [[Detroit Symphony Orchestra]], he was appointed as the orchestra’s chief conductor with effect from 1952.<ref name=dp/>