Editing Paul Paray (section)

===Detroit: 1952–1962===
For his first three years at Detroit, Paray managed to divide his activities between the US and Europe, but from 1956 he made his home in Detroit. He left the Colonne Orchestra (succeeded by Munch) and restricted his returns to France to two annual series of concerts, mainly with the [[Orchestre National de France]]. In Detroit – and also in [[Pittsburgh]], New York and [[Philadelphia]], where he was regularly invited – Paray took satisfaction in conducting, along with mainstream classical works, music by American and Canadian composers including [[Aaron Copland]], [[Samuel Barber]], [[Ned Rorem]] and [[Walter Piston]].<ref name=pp/>

In Detroit, Paray made a series of recordings, served by the new [[Mercury Records#Mercury Living Presence series|"Living Presence]]" technique of the Mercury record company – developed by Robert Fine and [[Wilma Cozart Fine]] – which were bestsellers in the United States, and were soon distributed worldwide.<ref name=pp/> In October 1956 he conducted the inaugural concert at the Ford Auditorium in Detroit, in a programme that included his own ''Mass for the 550th Anniversary of Joan of Arc''.<ref name=baker>Slonimsky and Kuhn, pp. 2712–2713</ref> He retired from the chief conductorship at Detroit in 1962 and was given the title of Emeritus Conductor. He returned to the orchestra for four weeks each year, from his home in Monte Carlo.<ref name=pp/>