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Auckland Classical Guitarist Bruce Paine - Blog

Articles
Title Hits
The Value of Music 12
Seasons Greetings and a Musical Gift for 2025 152
BandCamp Listening Party - November 16, 2025, 7:30 PM GMT+13 229
A Change in Direction 269
Quality, Not Quantity 220
Rediscovering Focus Online 478
Through Familiar Eyes 293
New Editions Now Available 517
New Release: Seikilos Chimes for Solo Guitar 347
Four Māori Folk Song–Inspired Works Now Published! 442
AI - What can you belief? 420
Blast from the past... 478
A Note on Homegrown Recordings 508
Made in New Zealand 887
Christmas Greetings and a Special Music Offering 1036
Watch the full recording of my May 26 Livestream Guitar Recital 2273
Podcast: RNZ Concert May 8th 1447
NZ Herald online edition, article... 1294
Upcoming solo album release 1228
Waikoropupū Springs protected... 1570
Where did all the concerts go? 1581
Update on concerts in 2023... 495
Sheet music update... 1318
End of online PDF sales... 1467
End of 2022 - Signs of life 1361
The Selwyn Recital now digital... 2308
Seikilos Chimes : video release 2136
Themes, Dreams and Seasons 2330
Trio recording announced... 2028
Online concert writeup May 22nd 2679
NZ Music Month - May 2020 2328
Summary 2019 2663
'Waitemata Reverie' NAXOS album out now! 2988
New Zealand Herald article 13 September.. 4497
New video released... 2829
Waitemata Reverie sheet music released 2913
The Selwyn Recital track downloads 2744
2018 Summary 3312
CD Launch - September 28th 2018... 3196
The Art of Sound and Motion - GFA premiere 3371
Why the ‘classical’ guitar? 3395
Q and A Spotlight on Bruce Paine 3849
High praise from 'The New Listener'… 3536
2017 in Summary 4009
Alberton Waltz - 6th out of 110! 3815
Premiere recordings of Paine... 4195
Music on Amazon... 4601
Indie Music... 4450
PDF Sheet Music... 4133
Alberton Waltz sheet music now available... 4208

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Francis Bacon, from The Advancement of Learning 1605

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