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Compositions/Works for Sale
Gary Ruschman is a performer, composer, and conductor who lights up texts with tuneful, organic, and accessible music. His music has been called "soulful" (St. Paul Pioneer Press), "stirring" (Opera News), and "rousing" (American Record Guide).View Gary's pop, rock, and crossover catalogs at: Sheet Music Plus and Sheet Music Direct
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Jump to: Mixed Choir | Trebles | TTBB | Solo | Liturgy | Buddhist Practicioners
For Mixed Choir:
All Are Welcome Here, for mixed chorus and piano; Gospel-style; sacred or secular.
Commissioned as part of the American Composers Forum Faith Partners residency program.
Price: $1.50/copy
timing: 3'30"
Blow the Trumpet, fanfare for mixed chorus and piano or organ; Anthem/Ash Wednesday/Lent.
Commissioned as part of the American Composers Forum Faith Partners residency program.
Price: $1.50/copy
timing: 2'05"
Friendship, meditation for mixed chorus and piano; sacred or secular/unity/friendship. Text by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Commissioned as part of the American Composers Forum Faith Partners residency program.
Price: $1.50/copy
timing: 2'45"
Arise, Shine, Anthem for mixed chorus, piano, flute, and djembe; Ephiphany/General/Reponsorial Psalm.
Commissioned as part of the American Composers Forum Faith Partners residency program.
Price: $1.50/copy
timing: 2'45"
Yonder Come Day, easy spiritual for mixed chorus, unaccompanied
Price: $1.50/copy
timing: 2'
Day is a-Breaking, folksong/easy anthem for Mixed Chorus, unaccompaniedBased on Bright Morning Star
Price: $1.50/copy
timing: 2'30"
Lord, Keep Us Steadfast, Anthem for Mixed Chorus and Organ Fantasy on Erhalt uns, Herr, bei deinem Wort
Price: $1.50/copy
timing: 2'30"
The Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom (Heart Sutra), Mixed chorus with treble solo
Premiered at the 2018 Festival of Faiths,Translation by Gavin Kilty.
The spirit reaching another shore of understanding.
Price: $1.50/copy
timing: 10'
For Trebles
This Is Us (a diptych for trebles), for Treble Chorus, unaccompanied - LOW KEY
Price: $2/copy
timing: 4' for both movements
This Is Us (a diptych for trebles), for Treble Chorus, unaccompanied - HIGH KEY
Price: $2/copy
timing: 4' for both movements
Dusk in Autumn (a Witch's Tea Party), for Treble Chorus, unaccompanied
Price: $1.50/copy
timing: 1'30"
Nowell! Nowell! This is the Salutacion:
Carol for SSA Chorus and optional drum tambourine, or chime
(available below in TTB voicing)
Price: $1.50/copy
timing: 2'30"
Nunc Dimittis (Let Your Servants Depart in Peace), Benediction for Treble Chorus, unaccompanied
Price: $1.50/copy
timing: 1'05"
For TTBB
Run On (God's Gonna Cut You down), Spiritual for TTBBB Chorus with solos, unaccompanied
Featured on the Cantus album That Eternal Day and BBC's American Justice
Price: $1.50/copy
timing: 3'15"
Nowell! Nowell! This is the Salutacion (The Salutation Carol), TTB with optional frame drum, tambourine, or chime
(available above in SSA voicing)
Published by Timothy C. Takach, distributed by Graphite Publishing! Featured on the album Christmas with Cantus
Price: $1.80/copy
timing: ca. 2'30"
The Christmas Kings' Dance, for TTB ensemble, unaccompanied
A funky Bruno Mars--esque mashup of The Nutcracker and Farandole; improv and beats welcome.
Price: $1.50/copy
timing: 2'45
Ch'ella mi creda libero, aria for TTBB Chorus, unaccompanied
From Puccini's La Fanciulla del West, based on the 1912 score
Price: $1.50/copy
timing: 2'
My Lagan Love, For TTBB Chorus, unaccompanied (with tenor solo)
Featured on the 2013 Cantus concert program Metamorphosis
Price: $1.50/copy
timing: 4'
Pater Noster, For TTBB Chorus, unaccompanied with chanters/solos
Featured on the Cantus 2007 National touring program Into Temptation
Price: $1.50/copy
timing: 2'45"
A Renaissance Medley, For TTBB Chorus, soloists, fiddle, and percussion
Featured on the 2013 Cantus concert program Metamorphosis
Price: $1.50/copy
timing: 4'
For Solo Voices:
From Dreams of Thee, suite for mezzo soprano and guitar
Second prize winner of The Dream Songs Project 2013 call-for-scores competition.
Price: $10 complete edition
(includes guitar reduction)
timing: 12'
April Love (at Parting), duet for mezzo soprano, baritone, and piano;
parlor song-style duet/encore
Commissioned by Anna DeGraff, with funds from theSouthwest Minnesota Arts Council and McKnight Foundation
Price: $1.50/copy
timing: 4'
Liturgy setting
Service for Eternal Life, Lutheran liturgy setting/communion service for mixed choir and keyboard
Commissioned as part of the American Composers Forum Faith Partners residency program.
Price: $7/copy (includes Assembly edition and Benediction)
Guitar supplement edition available for $2
timing: 10'
For Buddhist practitioners
Heart Sutra, two new settings suitable for daily practice
Price: Free for use in religious practice - All commercial rights reserved.
timing: varies
A recipient of a Faith Partners residency from American Composers Forum and the Otto Bremer Trust, Gary's compositions and arrangements have been recorded by Cantus and the South Dakota Chorale, and premiered by The Dream Songs Project, Lumina, Artemis, Wartburg College, San Francisco's Resound Ensemble, St. Michael's Choir School in Toronto, and the Oregon State Meistersingers. His children's opera Nice Mice and Friendly Frogs was produced in the summer of 2015 by Minnesota Opera and the Nobles County Integration Collaborative of Worthington, MN, and his arrangement of Run On was recently used as the opening theme to BBC Two's American Justice documentary series.
Upcoming Works:
Choral movements for The Call, a future production of the University of Minnesota Institute for Advanced Study