(28575) Paul Paray, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Masonic Temple, Detroit, 1953

Paul Paray, conductor for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, examines an ivory baton which was used by Rachmaninoff in London in 1898. The carved baton was presented to Paray by the Detroit Round Table of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, at a banquet in Masonic Temple as a tribute to Paray’s unflinching defense of the rights of man during the Nazi ascendency in France.