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Auckland Classical Guitarist Bruce Paine - Blog

Articles
Title Hits
The Value of Music 171
Seasons Greetings and a Musical Gift for 2025 253
BandCamp Listening Party - November 16, 2025, 7:30 PM GMT+13 339
A Change in Direction 313
Quality, Not Quantity 258
Rediscovering Focus Online 524
Through Familiar Eyes 332
New Editions Now Available 564
New Release: Seikilos Chimes for Solo Guitar 390
Four Māori Folk Song–Inspired Works Now Published! 502
AI - What can you belief? 457
Blast from the past... 509
A Note on Homegrown Recordings 546
Made in New Zealand 933
Christmas Greetings and a Special Music Offering 1082
Watch the full recording of my May 26 Livestream Guitar Recital 2313
Podcast: RNZ Concert May 8th 1479
NZ Herald online edition, article... 1335
Upcoming solo album release 1266
Waikoropupū Springs protected... 1630
Where did all the concerts go? 1633
Update on concerts in 2023... 537
Sheet music update... 1367
End of online PDF sales... 1510
End of 2022 - Signs of life 1405
The Selwyn Recital now digital... 2343
Seikilos Chimes : video release 2164
Themes, Dreams and Seasons 2385
Trio recording announced... 2060
Online concert writeup May 22nd 2714
NZ Music Month - May 2020 2368
Summary 2019 2706
'Waitemata Reverie' NAXOS album out now! 3031
New Zealand Herald article 13 September.. 4530
New video released... 2874
Waitemata Reverie sheet music released 2940
The Selwyn Recital track downloads 2783
2018 Summary 3351
CD Launch - September 28th 2018... 3216
The Art of Sound and Motion - GFA premiere 3414
Why the ‘classical’ guitar? 3417
Q and A Spotlight on Bruce Paine 3891
High praise from 'The New Listener'… 3566
2017 in Summary 4055
Alberton Waltz - 6th out of 110! 3859
Premiere recordings of Paine... 4236
Music on Amazon... 4655
Indie Music... 4504
PDF Sheet Music... 4168
Alberton Waltz sheet music now available... 4243

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Francis Bacon, from The Advancement of Learning 1605

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