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John Jeter – Fort Smith Symphony Music Director

May 24, 2025, 7:00 pm

John Jeter

LaRob K. Rafael and Kristina Lynn talk with conductor John Jeter, music director of Arkansas’s Fort Smith Symphony, about his work to affect change in expanding classical music programming.

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Florence Price: Suite of Dances
Württemburg Philharmonic/John Jeter
Naxos 8.55992

Florence Price: Songs of the Oak
Württemburg Philharmonic/John Jeter
Naxos 8.55992

William Grant Still: Symphony No. 5 “Western Hemisphere”
II. Slower, and with utmost grace
Fort Smith Symphony/John Jeter
Naxos 8.559603

William Grant Still: Get on Board
Get on Board: American Music for Woodwinds by William Grant Still (1994)
Sierra Winds; string quartet; Carol Urban-Stivers, p
“Paraglider” Vision String Quartet Vision String Quartet
Warner 190296656699

Florence Price: Symphony No. 3 in C Minor
III. “Juba”
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra/John Jeter
Naxos 8.559897

Meet the Hosts

LaRob K. Rafael joined the WFMT announcing staff in 2020 as a fill-in host and became WFMT’s full-time weekend morning host and producer in Fall of 2021. A Bass-Baritone from the DMV area (Maryland), LaRob has been involved with music since childhood and is a graduate of DePaul University, where he studied Vocal Performance. He has since gone on to work with arts organizations including Lyric Opera of Chicago, La Caccina (a professional women’s ensemble), Black Opera Alliance, Black Administrators of Opera, and Sphinx Organization to name a few. He is the Founder and Artistic Director of Hearing in Color and combines his experience and research to change the predominantly white, European, male classical canon.

Kristina Lynn is a producer and host at WFMT, presenting both Sounds Classical with LaRob K. Rafael, and Evening Music on Friday nights. She has hosted live performances and artist interviews with the Rush Hour Concerts and has done voiceover work for the WFMT Radio Network. With an easygoing approach, Kristina aims to welcome all types of listeners to classical music and explore the art form from a 21st-century perspective. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree specializing in Trumpet Performance from DePaul University. Before announcing at WFMT, she has previously worked in radio production at both WFMT and at WQXR in New York.

Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho

Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho

John Jeter – Fort Smith Symphony Music Director

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