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Auckland Classical Guitarist Bruce Paine - Blog

Articles
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The Value of Music 24
Seasons Greetings and a Musical Gift for 2025 160
BandCamp Listening Party - November 16, 2025, 7:30 PM GMT+13 236
A Change in Direction 271
Quality, Not Quantity 222
Rediscovering Focus Online 484
Through Familiar Eyes 298
New Editions Now Available 523
New Release: Seikilos Chimes for Solo Guitar 351
Four Māori Folk Song–Inspired Works Now Published! 453
AI - What can you belief? 422
Blast from the past... 484
A Note on Homegrown Recordings 513
Made in New Zealand 892
Christmas Greetings and a Special Music Offering 1046
Watch the full recording of my May 26 Livestream Guitar Recital 2278
Podcast: RNZ Concert May 8th 1450
NZ Herald online edition, article... 1302
Upcoming solo album release 1235
Waikoropupū Springs protected... 1581
Where did all the concerts go? 1588
Update on concerts in 2023... 499
Sheet music update... 1324
End of online PDF sales... 1473
End of 2022 - Signs of life 1363
The Selwyn Recital now digital... 2312
Seikilos Chimes : video release 2139
Themes, Dreams and Seasons 2336
Trio recording announced... 2031
Online concert writeup May 22nd 2682
NZ Music Month - May 2020 2332
Summary 2019 2668
'Waitemata Reverie' NAXOS album out now! 2994
New Zealand Herald article 13 September.. 4501
New video released... 2834
Waitemata Reverie sheet music released 2916
The Selwyn Recital track downloads 2749
2018 Summary 3319
CD Launch - September 28th 2018... 3198
The Art of Sound and Motion - GFA premiere 3377
Why the ‘classical’ guitar? 3396
Q and A Spotlight on Bruce Paine 3853
High praise from 'The New Listener'… 3541
2017 in Summary 4017
Alberton Waltz - 6th out of 110! 3820
Premiere recordings of Paine... 4200
Music on Amazon... 4608
Indie Music... 4454
PDF Sheet Music... 4136
Alberton Waltz sheet music now available... 4211

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Francis Bacon, from The Advancement of Learning 1605

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