Description: Composed by Penelope Walcott; translation reads as:‘returning home robed in embroidered silk’.
Written for percussion solo, and premiered by Dimitri Tasoudis at the University of York, Sept 2007.
The title of this work is from a chapter heading in Jung Chang’s 1992 autobiographical novel, Wild Swans. In it, she discusses the lives of her grandmother, her mother and herself, covering the tumultuous history of early twentieth-century China.
