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Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

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A former “fearsome music director” returns to his old orchestra: Paray conducts Schumann symphonies liveBorn at Le Trport near Rouen, Paul Paray (1886-1979) was one of the great French masters and a celebrated “orchestra builder”, as his work in Detroit makes plain – he served the orchestra as music director from 1952 to 1963 and devoted the second half of his career to it.Less well known is that, before his Detroit years, Paray was music director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (1949-1951). He was not himself Jewish, but in 1940, when Jewish players were forced out of the Concerts Colonne, of which he was then principal conductor, Paray left the orchestra alongside them; his wife came from an Alsatian Jewish family, and through these ties he formed close friendships with people living in Israel, which opened the way to his appointment in Tel Aviv.Paray was determined to r