Henry Brant
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Henry Dreyfuss Brant was a Canadian-born American composer. An expert orchestrator with a flair for experimentation, many of Brant's works featured spatialization techniques.
Henry Brant
Gordon Parks
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Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks was an American photographer, composer, author, poet, and filmmaker, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s—particula
Henry Brant
…session for the film score. Other composers whom he assisted as orchestrator included Virgil Thomson, Aaron Copland, George Antheil, Douglas Moore, and Gordon Parks. Brant's work as an orchestrator was not limited to film and stage: his long-term affinity for the music of Charles Ives — whose The Unanswered Question…
Parks in 1984
American Gothic, Washington, D.C. – a well-known photograph by Parks
A later photograph in Parks' FSA series shows Ella Watson and her family.
Gordon Parks next to his piano, photograph by David Finn (late 1980s)