Toward A Rediscovery by Huijuan Ling published on 2022-06-26T14:40:17Z Recorded by Imani Winds on March 28, 2022, at Baldwin Auditorium, Duke University. Audio recorded and edited by Mark Manring (https://www.manring.net) Program Note: I encountered a phrase in August of 2020, which can be roughly paraphrased as "in the scattered world, we seek the wholeness, that is, the healing of the fragmented personality." I found this phrase to be especially appropriate amid the COVID-19 pandemic and decided to write a piece that aims for a journey of rediscovering the whole. "Rediscovery" suggested that I rebuild an already existing sound world. In these uncertain and trying times, I find myself resorting to Messiaen's music a lot and constantly finding his courage, his hope to be inspiring to me. Therefore I made a harmonic reduction of the “Louange à l'Immortalité de Jésus” movement of Oliver Messiaen's Quartet For The End of Time, then used this reduction as the structure for my piece. Messiaen's movement has two large phrases, with chords 1-6 shared between phrase one and phrase two. I turned the shared chords into a short prelude, directly titled as Messiaen Homage. I then used the rest of Messiaen's first phrase in my movement 1, Toward a Reunion, in which the quintet gradually moves toward a synchronized ending. The rest of Messiaen's second phrase is found in the second movement, Toward a Divergence, in which the quintet gradually de-synchronizes from a unison. Genre wind quintet