JOHN STREETMAN
For John Streetman, Director of the Evansville Museum for 25 years, making music has always been a welcome avocation.

With the 1997 balloting of his first recording--Songs for Friends and Lovers--for a Grammy nomination, with proceeds benefiting persons living with HIV/AIDS, he has reexamined the role that music has played and should play in his life.

He wishes especially to recognize the superlative gifts of singers Tim Ewing and Cary Gray, longtime friends and seasoned interpreters of his music; his arranger and musical director Patrick McCormick, who was the "solid glue that held us together"; and the other gifted instrumental musicians who brought their own distinctive alchemy and enthusiasm to the journey.

Key to the venture's success was the project's recording, mixing and mastering engineer Richard Banks, President of the Blue Earth Corporation (Harrisburg, Illinois), whose "keen ear and tireless commitment were true inspirations" and whose capable assistance by Jeff Anderson, President of Sound Logic Recording (St. Joseph, Missouri), was an invaluable complement to the project.

But, in the end, it was Executive Producer John David Engelbrecht and South Central Communications Corporation whose faith in a dream made it a reality.