about

Marjorie M. Rusche is an internationally performed award winning classical composer who combines romantic, modern, vernacular and world music influences. Dr. Rusche composes music for opera, music theater, dance, orchestra, chorus, chamber ensembles & soloists. She teaches music composition, orchestration, music theory, and piano at Indiana University South Bend and the University of Notre Dame. ... more

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discography

• ECLIPSE piano solo Movement I​.​Radiant Inferno
  Mar 2010
• ECLIPSE piano solo Movement II​.​The Eclipse
  Mar 2010
• ECLIPSE piano solo Movement III​.​Radiance Revealed
  Mar 2010
• Voyageur d'Arctic I. Midnight Sun -- flute, violin, viola, cello
  Dec 2009
• Voyageur d'Arctic II. Glacier Bay
  Dec 2009
• Voyageur d'Arctic III. Ship's Wake
  Dec 2009
• Voyageur d'Arctic IV. Sealight
  Dec 2009
• Chanting to Paradise I. I Saw no Way SSAA chorus
  Apr 2005
• Chanting to Paradise II. Soft as the massacre of Suns
  Apr 2005
• Chanting to Paradise III. It's all I have to bring today
  Apr 2005
• Chanting to Paradise IV. Oh Sumptuous moment
  Apr 2005
• Chanting to Paradise V. Chanting to Paradise
  Apr 2005
• Piano Portraits: Nightwatch 1. In Memorium
  Mar 2005
• Piano Portraits: Nightwatch 2. Bluesy Cantabile
  Mar 2005
• Dreaming the RagWaltz Blues piano concerto
  Apr 2003
• Passages II: Requiem string quartet
  Feb 2002
• Fanfare for the Millennium full orchestra
  Apr 2000
• She Stoops to Conquer, comic chamber opera, "London Song" mezzo aria
  Jun 1999
• She Stoops to Conquer, comic chamber opera, "One Woman is All Women" soprano aria
  Jun 1999
• She Stoops to Conquer, comic chamber opera, "When I Come of Age" baritone aria
  Jun 1999
• She Stoops to Conquer, comic chamber opera, Scene 5, mezzo and baritone arioso​/​duo
  Jun 1999
• GODDESS SONGS, chamber opera​/​choral song cycle for SSA chorus, flute, oboe, bassoon, piano, & 2 percussionists (crotales, temple blocks, maracas, tam​-​tam, wood block, bell tree, congas) I. Athena
  Jul 1996
• GODDESS SONGS II. Aphrodite
  Jul 1996
• GODDESS SONGS III. Hera
  Jul 1996
• GODDESS SONGS IV. Artemis
  Jul 1996
• GODDESS SONGS V. Persephone
  Jul 1996
• GODDESS SONGS VI. Demeter
  Jul 1996
• GODDESS SONGS VII. Ariadne
  Jul 1996
• Rise Up, Shepherd and Follow SATB chorus & brass quintet
  Dec 1994
• Songs of Love and Death for soprano, Bb clarinet, violin, and cello 1. Wild Nights
  Nov 1994
• Songs of Love and Death for soprano, Bb clarinet, violin, and cello 2. An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
  Nov 1994
• Songs of Love and Death for soprano, Bb clarinet, violin, and cello 3. I Can Wade Grief
  Nov 1994
• Songs of Love and Death for soprano, Bb clarinet, violin, and cello 4. This is Just to Say
  Nov 1994
• Songs of Love and Death for soprano, Bb clarinet, violin, and cello 5. I Heard a Fly Buzz
  Nov 1994
• Songs of Love and Death for soprano, Bb clarinet, violin, and cello 6. The Hanging Man
  Nov 1994
• Songs of Love and Death for soprano, Bb clarinet, violin, and cello 7. Mary's Eyes
  Nov 1994
• Songs of Love and Death for soprano, Bb clarinet, violin, and cello 8. After Reading St. John the Divine
  Nov 1994
• Songs of Love and Death for soprano, Bb clarinet, violin, and cello 9. Love Comes Quietly
  Nov 1994
• Songs of Love and Death for soprano, Bb clarinet, violin, and cello 10. Living
  Nov 1994
• Colors Mvt. I Red violin and piano
  Nov 1992
• Colors Mvt. II Blue violin and piano
  Nov 1992
• Colors Mvt. III Yellow violin and piano
  Nov 1992
• Colors Mvt. IV Rainbow violin and piano
  Nov 1992
• Comments, a short song cycle for soprano and piano 1. Comment
  Apr 1992
• Comments 2. Resume
  Apr 1992
• Comments 3. Frustration
  Apr 1992
• Comments 4. The Thin Edge
  Apr 1992
• Comments 5. Byron and Shelley and Keats
  Apr 1992
• Comments 6. D​.​G. Rossetti
  Apr 1992
• Comments 7. Walter Savage Landor
  Apr 1992
• Comments 8. George Sand
  Apr 1992
• Mutability for tenor and chamber orchestra
  Mar 1987
• BRENDA, monodrama​/​song cycle for soprano, violin and piano I. Childhood
  Mar 1986
• BRENDA, monodrama​/​song cycle for soprano, violin and piano II. Youth
  Mar 1986
• BRENDA, monodrama​/​song cycle for soprano, violin and piano III. Rowing
  Mar 1986
• BRENDA, monodrama​/​song cycle for soprano, violin and piano IV. War
  Mar 1986
• BRENDA, monodrama​/​song cycle for soprano, violin and piano V. Birthing
  Mar 1986
• BRENDA, monodrama​/​song cycle for soprano, violin and piano VI. Divorce
  Mar 1986
• BRENDA, monodrama​/​song cycle for soprano, violin and piano VII. Work
  Mar 1986
• BRENDA, monodrama​/​song cycle for soprano, violin and piano VIII. Romance
  Mar 1986
• BRENDA, monodrama​/​song cycle for soprano, violin and piano IX. Death
  Mar 1986
• BRENDA, monodrama​/​song cycle for soprano, violin and piano X. Twilight
  Mar 1986
• BRENDA, monodrama​/​song cycle for soprano, violin and piano XI. Transition
  Mar 1986
• BRENDA, monodrama​/​song cycle for soprano, violin and piano XII. Visions
  Mar 1986
• DANCE OF DEATH opera excerpts, Act Two opening to quartet
  Feb 1985
• Dance of Death Act One ending
  Feb 1985