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Auckland Classical Guitarist Bruce Paine - Blog

Articles
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The Value of Music 147
Seasons Greetings and a Musical Gift for 2025 247
BandCamp Listening Party - November 16, 2025, 7:30 PM GMT+13 330
A Change in Direction 311
Quality, Not Quantity 254
Rediscovering Focus Online 518
Through Familiar Eyes 327
New Editions Now Available 559
New Release: Seikilos Chimes for Solo Guitar 384
Four Māori Folk Song–Inspired Works Now Published! 494
AI - What can you belief? 452
Blast from the past... 508
A Note on Homegrown Recordings 543
Made in New Zealand 928
Christmas Greetings and a Special Music Offering 1075
Watch the full recording of my May 26 Livestream Guitar Recital 2308
Podcast: RNZ Concert May 8th 1477
NZ Herald online edition, article... 1332
Upcoming solo album release 1263
Waikoropupū Springs protected... 1626
Where did all the concerts go? 1630
Update on concerts in 2023... 525
Sheet music update... 1362
End of online PDF sales... 1504
End of 2022 - Signs of life 1402
The Selwyn Recital now digital... 2338
Seikilos Chimes : video release 2161
Themes, Dreams and Seasons 2383
Trio recording announced... 2055
Online concert writeup May 22nd 2712
NZ Music Month - May 2020 2364
Summary 2019 2702
'Waitemata Reverie' NAXOS album out now! 3025
New Zealand Herald article 13 September.. 4526
New video released... 2869
Waitemata Reverie sheet music released 2938
The Selwyn Recital track downloads 2776
2018 Summary 3349
CD Launch - September 28th 2018... 3216
The Art of Sound and Motion - GFA premiere 3408
Why the ‘classical’ guitar? 3414
Q and A Spotlight on Bruce Paine 3887
High praise from 'The New Listener'… 3563
2017 in Summary 4053
Alberton Waltz - 6th out of 110! 3854
Premiere recordings of Paine... 4232
Music on Amazon... 4651
Indie Music... 4500
PDF Sheet Music... 4164
Alberton Waltz sheet music now available... 4238

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Francis Bacon, from The Advancement of Learning 1605

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