On Thursday December 4, 2025, at Mills College at Northeastern University in Oakland, Other 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 Adams, Lois V Vierk, Somei Satoh, Annie Gosfield, Michael Wookey, Eric 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.

For more information, listen to Charles Amirkhanian’s 1984 interview with Margaret Leng Tan.

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

Program

John Luther Adams (b. 1953)

Nunataks (2007)

Lois V Vierk (b. 1951)

To Stare Astonished at the Sea (1994)

Somei Satoh (b. 1947)

And No Birds Sing (2021) (West Coast premiere)

Annie Gosfield (b. 1960)

Shattered Apparitions of the Western Wind (2013) Part III

Michael Wookey (b. 1983)

Coney Island Sous l’Eau (2014) (Coney Island under the Water) Solo toy piano version (2016)

Erik Griswold (b. 1969)

Paradise Lost (2021) (West Coast premiere)

John Cage (1912–1992)

0’00” (1962)