John Rea Unpacks his Library
The composer John Rea is an intellectual who draws his influences and his thought from several fields of knowledge. We invited him to draw up lists of books according to selected criteria: his student days, his current concerns, the books he has kept for decades, his most precious titles, his recommendations to music lovers and music students, his favorite books. Each category is then discussed in order to understand the aspects that are most important to him. What emerges is an unusual intellectual journey marked by a curiosity to understand the world that draws analogies from his own compositions.