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TELEVISION

  • Sesame Street – Composed over 300 songs and scores.
  • Free To Be…You And Me – ABC special based on the record and book. Composed title song and others. Arranger, Conductor.
  • Sooner Or Later- NBC. Composed songs and score for musical.
  • It Happened One Christmas – Universal/ABC, starring Marlo Thomas and Orson Welles. Composed score.
  • Sesame Street Stays Up Late – A New Year’s Celebration – Sesame Street Special. Composed songs and score.
  • Please Don’t Eat The Pictures: Sesame Street At Metropolitan Museum of Art – Sesame Street Special. Composed songs.
  • The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss – Jim Henson Productions & Nickelodeon. Composed score.
  • The Tale of Peter Rabbit – HBO animated musical starring Carol Burnett. Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick.  Written by Tony Geiss. Composed songs and score.
  • Trackdown, Finding The Goodbar Killer – TV movie, Produced by Grosso-Jacobson.
  • Dorothy In The Land of Oz – CBS. Composed songs and score.
  • Hothouse – Lorimar/ABC series. Composed score.
  • Feeling Good – PBS series. Composer and music director.

 

FILMbang the drum slowly

  • Bang the Drum Slowly starring Robert De Niro and Michael Moriarty .
  • One Summer Love (also released as Dragonfly) starring Susan Sarandon and Beau Bridges.
  • Red Riding Hood. Live action musical starring Isabella Rossellini and Craig T. Nelson. Songs and score.
  • Hurry Up Or I’ll Be 30 starring Danny DeVito.
  • The Emperor’s New Clothes. Live action musical starring Sid Caesar and Robert Morse. Songs and score.
  • Alice, Sweet Alice, also known as Communion, starring Brooke Shields.
  • Music supervisor for seven live action feature musicals: Cannon MovieTales.

 

THEATER

  • Composed incidental music for Little Duck by Billy Aronson at Ensemble Studio Theater. 2009
  • Composed three songs for A…My Name Is Alice. Outer Critics Drama Award
  • Composed incidental music for the Broadway play The Big Love starring Tracey Ullman.
  • Composed incidental score for Manhattan Theater Club production of Some People, Some Other People, And What They Finally Do.
  • Composed five songs for King Lear at the Pittsburgh Playhouse, 1974.
  • Composed score for No Dogs Allowed, a children’s musical. Book by Sonia Manzano, Lyrics by Billy Aronson. Commissioned by Actor’s Playhouse, Coral Gables, Florida 2006. Revived 2008. New production at Atlantic Theater Company, New York City 2009.
  • Composed music for historical musicals for children for his company, Quill Entertainment Company. Shows include:
    • Everybody’s Watching: The Making of the Constitution
    • Glory Road (Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad)
    • Dream (Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Bus Boycott)
    • Paul Revere Rides Again

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