Margaret Leng Tan seated at toy piano in meadow
Other Minds, with the Center for Contemporary Music and Mills Performing Arts present

Margaret Leng Tan “And No Birds Sing” — Mills Music Now


December 4, 2025
7:30 PM PDT
Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall, Music Building

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