Theodore "Ted" Russell was an American conductor who had helped form

Mississippi Mississippi () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of Mexico; to the southwest by Louisiana; and to the northwest by Arkansas. Miss ...

's first symphony orchestra the original Jackson Symphony Orchestra (JSO) during the 1940s.John Howard ''Men Like That: A Southern Queer History'' 0226354709-2001 Page 166 "Theodore Russell had helped form Mississippi's first symphony orchestra over two decades prior in 1944. Under his direction, the orchestra "really grew and matured" over the years, as a founding violinist, Delia Janacek, remembers. ...Soon Ted Russell would move the orchestra into a new home, to be constructed at the site of the old Trailways bus station, on Pascagoula Street at Lamar.138 Russell well trained his musicians, who early on were all volunteer." ..."By the 1950s, in addition to a full season of performances, the Jackson Symphony Orchestra (JSO) offered children's concerts in the schools, special concerts for black audiences, as well as numerous run-out concerts — road shows at towns"

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