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Auckland Classical Guitarist Bruce Paine - Blog

Articles
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The Value of Music 134
Seasons Greetings and a Musical Gift for 2025 237
BandCamp Listening Party - November 16, 2025, 7:30 PM GMT+13 321
A Change in Direction 309
Quality, Not Quantity 251
Rediscovering Focus Online 515
Through Familiar Eyes 324
New Editions Now Available 554
New Release: Seikilos Chimes for Solo Guitar 381
Four Māori Folk Song–Inspired Works Now Published! 492
AI - What can you belief? 450
Blast from the past... 507
A Note on Homegrown Recordings 541
Made in New Zealand 926
Christmas Greetings and a Special Music Offering 1073
Watch the full recording of my May 26 Livestream Guitar Recital 2307
Podcast: RNZ Concert May 8th 1475
NZ Herald online edition, article... 1330
Upcoming solo album release 1260
Waikoropupū Springs protected... 1625
Where did all the concerts go? 1628
Update on concerts in 2023... 522
Sheet music update... 1360
End of online PDF sales... 1502
End of 2022 - Signs of life 1399
The Selwyn Recital now digital... 2336
Seikilos Chimes : video release 2158
Themes, Dreams and Seasons 2381
Trio recording announced... 2054
Online concert writeup May 22nd 2710
NZ Music Month - May 2020 2362
Summary 2019 2697
'Waitemata Reverie' NAXOS album out now! 3024
New Zealand Herald article 13 September.. 4523
New video released... 2868
Waitemata Reverie sheet music released 2936
The Selwyn Recital track downloads 2775
2018 Summary 3346
CD Launch - September 28th 2018... 3215
The Art of Sound and Motion - GFA premiere 3407
Why the ‘classical’ guitar? 3413
Q and A Spotlight on Bruce Paine 3884
High praise from 'The New Listener'… 3563
2017 in Summary 4050
Alberton Waltz - 6th out of 110! 3853
Premiere recordings of Paine... 4231
Music on Amazon... 4649
Indie Music... 4499
PDF Sheet Music... 4163
Alberton Waltz sheet music now available... 4235

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Francis Bacon, from The Advancement of Learning 1605

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