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Auckland Classical Guitarist Bruce Paine - Blog

Articles
Title Hits
Seasons Greetings and a Musical Gift for 2025 94
BandCamp Listening Party - November 16, 2025, 7:30 PM GMT+13 180
A Change in Direction 213
Quality, Not Quantity 193
Rediscovering Focus Online 447
Through Familiar Eyes 269
New Editions Now Available 485
New Release: Seikilos Chimes for Solo Guitar 310
Four Māori Folk Song–Inspired Works Now Published! 405
AI - What can you belief? 399
Blast from the past... 456
A Note on Homegrown Recordings 477
Made in New Zealand 859
Christmas Greetings and a Special Music Offering 1001
Watch the full recording of my May 26 Livestream Guitar Recital 2248
Podcast: RNZ Concert May 8th 1419
NZ Herald online edition, article... 1264
Upcoming solo album release 1199
Waikoropupū Springs protected... 1522
Where did all the concerts go? 1550
Update on concerts in 2023... 464
Sheet music update... 1288
End of online PDF sales... 1439
End of 2022 - Signs of life 1337
The Selwyn Recital now digital... 2286
Seikilos Chimes : video release 2111
Themes, Dreams and Seasons 2305
Trio recording announced... 2004
Online concert writeup May 22nd 2649
NZ Music Month - May 2020 2312
Summary 2019 2632
'Waitemata Reverie' NAXOS album out now! 2962
New Zealand Herald article 13 September.. 4466
New video released... 2793
Waitemata Reverie sheet music released 2889
The Selwyn Recital track downloads 2710
2018 Summary 3288
CD Launch - September 28th 2018... 3175
The Art of Sound and Motion - GFA premiere 3330
Why the ‘classical’ guitar? 3376
Q and A Spotlight on Bruce Paine 3811
High praise from 'The New Listener'… 3502
2017 in Summary 3969
Alberton Waltz - 6th out of 110! 3781
Premiere recordings of Paine... 4159
Music on Amazon... 4560
Indie Music... 4422
PDF Sheet Music... 4105
Alberton Waltz sheet music now available... 4180
Concert footage... 4247

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Francis Bacon, from The Advancement of Learning 1605

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