If, like your Bulletin editor, you can't remember what was in the Bulletin last week, you can now access previous Bulletins via a link at the bottom of each week's Bulletin. I would put the link here as well, but you might miss Song of the Week if I did.

Thanks to marvellous Dave Miller in IT for setting it up.

Cormac McCarthy write a novel, later a film, entitled No Country for Old Men. He can't have had music country in mind. Eightysomethings the Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney has just released new albums and Tom 'the Voice' Jones is still going strong at 86. Do eightysomethings in the audience still throw their underwear at him?

This is his two-minute masterpiece. Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin says he played as a session musician on the track.

Next week's Public Lecture speaker, Sarah Hart, is looking for a keyboard to demonstrate the maths of music (and vice-versa).

Does anyone know where we can find one? Perhaps in a college bandroom? Email Dyrol if you know.

Image: Rene Magritte - Georgette at the Piano

Propose a talk, panel or workshop for OxFOS, Oxford's free, University-wide conference (8–11 March 2027), exploring how research can be more open, transparent and accessible. This year's theme is The Costs of Knowledge.

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Image: Joachim Patinir - The Feeding of the Five Thousand