The Nature of Music: Margaret Leng Tan

Presented by Other Minds

An Asian woman with a short bob sits at a small, toy piano in a field of grass with one hand raised as though she has just played a note

On Thursday December 4, 2025, at Mills College at Northeastern University in OaklandOther Minds welcomes Singaporean avant-garde pianist and toy pianist Margaret Leng Tan to present And No Birds Sing, her “personal endeavor to call attention to climate change and the dire consequences of remaining passive in the face of an unfolding universal catastrophe.” Named for the refrain of a John Keats poem, And No Birds Sing features Tan playing works by John Luther AdamsLois V VierkSomei SatohAnnie GosfieldMichael WookeyEric Griswold, and John Cage.

This concert is the 19th edition of Other Minds’s Nature of Music series, presented in cooperation with the Center for Contemporary Music, Northeastern University and Mills Performing Arts.

This concert is made possible through generous support from the EarthWays Foundation.

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Program Items

John Luther Adams Nunataks
Lois V. Verk To Stare Astonished at the Sea
Somei Satoh And No Birds Sing
Annie Gosfield Shattered Apparitions of the Western Wind
Michael Wookey Coney Island Sous I'Eau
Erik Griswold Paradise Lost
John Cage 0'00"

Performers

Margaret Leng Tan Pianist