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Auckland Classical Guitarist Bruce Paine - Blog

Articles
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The Value of Music 242
Seasons Greetings and a Musical Gift for 2025 302
BandCamp Listening Party - November 16, 2025, 7:30 PM GMT+13 384
A Change in Direction 327
Quality, Not Quantity 275
Rediscovering Focus Online 542
Through Familiar Eyes 343
New Editions Now Available 582
New Release: Seikilos Chimes for Solo Guitar 412
Four Māori Folk Song–Inspired Works Now Published! 518
AI - What can you belief? 470
Blast from the past... 519
A Note on Homegrown Recordings 569
Made in New Zealand 947
Christmas Greetings and a Special Music Offering 1103
Watch the full recording of my May 26 Livestream Guitar Recital 2333
Podcast: RNZ Concert May 8th 1495
NZ Herald online edition, article... 1354
Upcoming solo album release 1281
Waikoropupū Springs protected... 1651
Where did all the concerts go? 1671
Update on concerts in 2023... 557
Sheet music update... 1389
End of online PDF sales... 1527
End of 2022 - Signs of life 1417
The Selwyn Recital now digital... 2358
Seikilos Chimes : video release 2178
Themes, Dreams and Seasons 2402
Trio recording announced... 2075
Online concert writeup May 22nd 2727
NZ Music Month - May 2020 2385
Summary 2019 2719
'Waitemata Reverie' NAXOS album out now! 3046
New Zealand Herald article 13 September.. 4542
New video released... 2891
Waitemata Reverie sheet music released 2952
The Selwyn Recital track downloads 2799
2018 Summary 3368
CD Launch - September 28th 2018... 3226
The Art of Sound and Motion - GFA premiere 3431
Why the ‘classical’ guitar? 3427
Q and A Spotlight on Bruce Paine 3904
High praise from 'The New Listener'… 3584
2017 in Summary 4071
Alberton Waltz - 6th out of 110! 3879
Premiere recordings of Paine... 4253
Music on Amazon... 4677
Indie Music... 4524
PDF Sheet Music... 4185
Alberton Waltz sheet music now available... 4259

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Francis Bacon, from The Advancement of Learning 1605

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