John Rea » List of Works

Accident (2004), John Rea, two clarinets, horn, trumpet, trombone, percussion, piano, two violins, viola, cello and double bass [performed once]

Commission: Festival MNM — Société Radio-Canada (SRC), Festival Présences — Radio France

Beauty Dissolves in a Brief Hour (2010), John Rea, chamber opera for two voices, and accordion [performed once]

Big Apple Jam (1990), John Rea, saxophone quartet, and MIDI sequencer [performed once]

Brass communicants (1987), John Rea, four horns, four trumpets, two trombones, two tubas and four percussions [performed once]

Études multiples (1996), John Rea, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn and piano [performed once]

Hommage à Vasarely (1977), John Rea, orchestra

J’ignore si j’étais un homme rêvant alors que j’étais un papillon ou si je suis à présent un papillon rêvant que je suis un homme (2001), John Rea, Yamaha Disklavier and chamber ensemble [performed twice]

Commission: SMCQ, with support from the CCA

Les Jours (ballet) (1969), John Rea, orchestra

Lautari (1999-2001), John Rea, violin, cello, and piano [performed once]

Commission: Trio Fibonacci, with support from the CCA

Las Meninas (1991), John Rea, solo piano, transformal variations on Robert Schumann’s Kinderszenen [performed twice]

Commission: SMCQ, with support from the CCA

Musique des jardins sans complexe (1987), Walter Boudreau, Michel-Georges Brégent, Michel Gonneville, Denis Gougeon, Alain Lalonde, John Rea, four horns, four trumpets, two trombones, two tubas and four percussions [performed once]

Objets perdus (1991), John Rea [performed twice]

Offenes Lied (1986), John Rea, two sopranos and clarinet

Recorded on the CD Gougeon, Rea, Varèse, Longtin.

Over Time (1987), John Rea [performed once]

Recorded on the CD Orchestre Métropolitain.

Portrait of a Man in Elysian Fields, hommage à Morton Feldman (1989), John Rea, piano [performed 3 times]

Les Raisons des Forces Mouvantes (1984), John Rea, string quartet and flute [performed once]

Reception and Offering Music (1975), John Rea, wind quintet and percussion [performed once]

Sacrée Landowska (2000), John Rea, musical theatre: harpsichordist / actress, seven instruments and conductor (obbligato)

Symphonie du millénaire (2000), Serge Arcuri, Walter Boudreau, Yves Daoust, Alain Dauphinais, André Duchesne, Louis Dufort, Sean Ferguson, Michel Gonneville, André Hamel, Alain Lalonde, Estelle Lemire, Jean Lesage, Luc Marcel, Marie Pelletier, John Rea, Anthony Rozankovic, Gilles Tremblay (Denys Bouliane, arrangement; Vincent Collard, libretto), 333 musicians, 2000 bell-ringers, 15 steeples, one great organ, one 56-bell chime and two fire trucks [performed twice]

• 1. Appel
• 2. Enfer
• 3. Purgatoire
• 4. Comtemplation / Aurores boréales
• 5. Paradis
• 6. Ascension
• 7. Apothéose & Épilogue

Commission: Codes d’accès, with support from the CCA

Time and Again (1987), John Rea, two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, piano, two percussions, twelve violins, four violas, four cellos and two double bass [performed twice]

Treppenmusik (1982), John Rea, string quartet, saxophone quartet, clarinet in B-flat and E-flat, two bass clarinets, and delay [performed 3 times]

Commission: SMCQ, with support from the CCA

Une Fleur du Mal (mélodrames d’outre-tombe) (1992), John Rea, soprano, clarinet, percussion and cello [performed twice]

Commission: Marie-Danielle Parent, with support from the CCA

… une pierre qui roule! (1994), John Rea, flute, oboe, clarinet, violin and cello [performed once]