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Auckland Classical Guitarist Bruce Paine - Blog

Articles
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The Value of Music 218
Seasons Greetings and a Musical Gift for 2025 279
BandCamp Listening Party - November 16, 2025, 7:30 PM GMT+13 366
A Change in Direction 320
Quality, Not Quantity 266
Rediscovering Focus Online 533
Through Familiar Eyes 337
New Editions Now Available 574
New Release: Seikilos Chimes for Solo Guitar 404
Four Māori Folk Song–Inspired Works Now Published! 510
AI - What can you belief? 464
Blast from the past... 514
A Note on Homegrown Recordings 562
Made in New Zealand 940
Christmas Greetings and a Special Music Offering 1090
Watch the full recording of my May 26 Livestream Guitar Recital 2324
Podcast: RNZ Concert May 8th 1488
NZ Herald online edition, article... 1345
Upcoming solo album release 1274
Waikoropupū Springs protected... 1642
Where did all the concerts go? 1652
Update on concerts in 2023... 544
Sheet music update... 1378
End of online PDF sales... 1518
End of 2022 - Signs of life 1410
The Selwyn Recital now digital... 2352
Seikilos Chimes : video release 2171
Themes, Dreams and Seasons 2394
Trio recording announced... 2068
Online concert writeup May 22nd 2721
NZ Music Month - May 2020 2376
Summary 2019 2712
'Waitemata Reverie' NAXOS album out now! 3041
New Zealand Herald article 13 September.. 4536
New video released... 2883
Waitemata Reverie sheet music released 2945
The Selwyn Recital track downloads 2791
2018 Summary 3362
CD Launch - September 28th 2018... 3222
The Art of Sound and Motion - GFA premiere 3422
Why the ‘classical’ guitar? 3422
Q and A Spotlight on Bruce Paine 3897
High praise from 'The New Listener'… 3576
2017 in Summary 4061
Alberton Waltz - 6th out of 110! 3873
Premiere recordings of Paine... 4244
Music on Amazon... 4668
Indie Music... 4520
PDF Sheet Music... 4178
Alberton Waltz sheet music now available... 4253

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Francis Bacon, from The Advancement of Learning 1605

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