Big Bird in China credit.
Dick Lieb is a composer, conductor, and arranger who has worked on several Sesame Street and Muppet projects over the years. He began his musical career as a bass trombone player, working with The Tonight Show band, under the direction of Skitch Henderson and later Doc Severinsen. Lieb began his association with Sesame and the Muppets in the late 1970s, and also worked on other CTW series, including 3-2-1 Contact.
Lieb has been equally active as an arranger for records, and an orchestrator for stage musicals. In 2006, he won a Tony Award for orchestrating the Broadway revival of The Pajama Game.
Credits[]
Lieb is credited in specials for conducting, arranging and composing background scores, unless where noted.
- Sesame Street - various cues, including "number poem" inserts
- Christmas Eve on Sesame Street
- Big Bird in China (also composed "We're Going to China" and "Monkey King Song")
- Don't Eat the Pictures
- The Christmas Toy
- Big Bird in Japan
- Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music - music continuity
- Sing-Along Earth Songs - composer
- A New Baby in My House - background music
- Elmo Saves Christmas - music director
- The Best of Kermit on Sesame Street - additional music
- Discography
- Sesame Street Fever - arranger
- Sesame Disco! - arranger
- Christmas Eve on Sesame Street - original music, arranger and conductor
- Big Bird Discovers the Orchestra - arranger
- Getting Ready for School - arranger
- Exercise! - arranger/conductor
- The Gang's All Here! - arranger
- Surprise! - arranger
- Cheep Thrills - arranger
- A Sesame Street Christmas - conductor