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Auckland Classical Guitarist Bruce Paine - Blog

Articles
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The Value of Music 31
Seasons Greetings and a Musical Gift for 2025 167
BandCamp Listening Party - November 16, 2025, 7:30 PM GMT+13 241
A Change in Direction 282
Quality, Not Quantity 229
Rediscovering Focus Online 490
Through Familiar Eyes 303
New Editions Now Available 529
New Release: Seikilos Chimes for Solo Guitar 358
Four Māori Folk Song–Inspired Works Now Published! 463
AI - What can you belief? 428
Blast from the past... 487
A Note on Homegrown Recordings 518
Made in New Zealand 898
Christmas Greetings and a Special Music Offering 1049
Watch the full recording of my May 26 Livestream Guitar Recital 2285
Podcast: RNZ Concert May 8th 1455
NZ Herald online edition, article... 1306
Upcoming solo album release 1238
Waikoropupū Springs protected... 1589
Where did all the concerts go? 1595
Update on concerts in 2023... 503
Sheet music update... 1329
End of online PDF sales... 1478
End of 2022 - Signs of life 1378
The Selwyn Recital now digital... 2317
Seikilos Chimes : video release 2143
Themes, Dreams and Seasons 2355
Trio recording announced... 2035
Online concert writeup May 22nd 2687
NZ Music Month - May 2020 2339
Summary 2019 2672
'Waitemata Reverie' NAXOS album out now! 2999
New Zealand Herald article 13 September.. 4505
New video released... 2838
Waitemata Reverie sheet music released 2920
The Selwyn Recital track downloads 2754
2018 Summary 3321
CD Launch - September 28th 2018... 3200
The Art of Sound and Motion - GFA premiere 3382
Why the ‘classical’ guitar? 3401
Q and A Spotlight on Bruce Paine 3859
High praise from 'The New Listener'… 3548
2017 in Summary 4020
Alberton Waltz - 6th out of 110! 3825
Premiere recordings of Paine... 4208
Music on Amazon... 4612
Indie Music... 4459
PDF Sheet Music... 4141
Alberton Waltz sheet music now available... 4214

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Francis Bacon, from The Advancement of Learning 1605

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