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Auckland Classical Guitarist Bruce Paine - Blog

Articles
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The Value of Music 261
Seasons Greetings and a Musical Gift for 2025 317
BandCamp Listening Party - November 16, 2025, 7:30 PM GMT+13 396
A Change in Direction 329
Quality, Not Quantity 278
Rediscovering Focus Online 545
Through Familiar Eyes 343
New Editions Now Available 584
New Release: Seikilos Chimes for Solo Guitar 414
Four Māori Folk Song–Inspired Works Now Published! 519
AI - What can you belief? 472
Blast from the past... 520
A Note on Homegrown Recordings 572
Made in New Zealand 948
Christmas Greetings and a Special Music Offering 1105
Watch the full recording of my May 26 Livestream Guitar Recital 2337
Podcast: RNZ Concert May 8th 1500
NZ Herald online edition, article... 1355
Upcoming solo album release 1282
Waikoropupū Springs protected... 1654
Where did all the concerts go? 1676
Update on concerts in 2023... 560
Sheet music update... 1390
End of online PDF sales... 1529
End of 2022 - Signs of life 1419
The Selwyn Recital now digital... 2358
Seikilos Chimes : video release 2181
Themes, Dreams and Seasons 2406
Trio recording announced... 2077
Online concert writeup May 22nd 2728
NZ Music Month - May 2020 2388
Summary 2019 2719
'Waitemata Reverie' NAXOS album out now! 3052
New Zealand Herald article 13 September.. 4542
New video released... 2891
Waitemata Reverie sheet music released 2953
The Selwyn Recital track downloads 2800
2018 Summary 3370
CD Launch - September 28th 2018... 3226
The Art of Sound and Motion - GFA premiere 3434
Why the ‘classical’ guitar? 3428
Q and A Spotlight on Bruce Paine 3905
High praise from 'The New Listener'… 3588
2017 in Summary 4074
Alberton Waltz - 6th out of 110! 3879
Premiere recordings of Paine... 4254
Music on Amazon... 4678
Indie Music... 4526
PDF Sheet Music... 4188
Alberton Waltz sheet music now available... 4261

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Francis Bacon, from The Advancement of Learning 1605

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