Although known in the classical world primarily for his ballet scores, his most widely known music was the iconic guitar theme for The Twilight Zone American television series.
For the 1957 Aix-en-Provence Festival, he wrote a piano concerto, but won wider recognition for the premiere, conducted by Leonard Bernstein, of 24 Préludes pour Orchestre (1958).
In 1960, Gluskin was asked to find a new theme for the main title and end credits of the CBS television series The Twilight Zone, then entering its second season, to replace the original one by Bernard Herrmann.
La tragédie de Carmen (1981), his adaptation of Bizet's opera for director Peter Brook, was an international success.
Composed in 1981, 103 Regards dans l’eau is a violin concerto with 103 titled 'movements' in four main sections, inspired by “poetic celebrations of water” taken from a variety of literary and scientific sources.
[7] In 1987, he arranged the orchestral music for the ballet Les mariés de la tour Eiffel, a pastiche by various French composers, for an ensemble of 15 instruments.