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ily, to politics, each highly personal, poetic and powerful. It also includes four songs that have been selectedas winners in the annual Walnut Valley Festival Songwriters competition in Winfield.Gackstatter has become well-known in south-central Kansas. Not only is he director of instrumental musicat Cowley, he also directs the Winfield Regional Symphony and the Arkansas City Community Band. Hiscompositions and arrangements have been performed by wind ensembles and bands at the University ofKansas, Wichita State University, and Friends University, as well as many high schools.Currently, Gackstatter is the orchestral arranger for singer-songwriter John McCutcheon, and recently forTom Chapin.Durham and Gackstatter have performed together for about seven years, more seriously during the lasttwo years. Durham said he and Gackstatter have a mutual respect for each other's music."Gary is incredibly talented," Durham said. "He can concentrate and get the job done and see it to its completion.Iwas amazed how much music he put out in such a short period of time."Gackstatter called Rosseter, an acquaintance from Wichita State University who now plays in the AtlantaSymphony, the best violist he's ever worked with. Gackstatter said the team of three musicians worked welltogether."My goal is to develop this side of my musicianship," he said. "I spend all my time doing communitywork. But I really love this, too. Artwork and my music have laid dormant for so long. I have made myselfdo this."Sam Crowl, an instructor in Cowley's Computer Graphic Arts program, did the layout and design for theCD cover and jacket.m