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Auckland Classical Guitarist Bruce Paine - Blog

Articles
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The Value of Music 262
Seasons Greetings and a Musical Gift for 2025 319
BandCamp Listening Party - November 16, 2025, 7:30 PM GMT+13 398
A Change in Direction 329
Quality, Not Quantity 279
Rediscovering Focus Online 546
Through Familiar Eyes 344
New Editions Now Available 584
New Release: Seikilos Chimes for Solo Guitar 414
Four Māori Folk Song–Inspired Works Now Published! 520
AI - What can you belief? 473
Blast from the past... 520
A Note on Homegrown Recordings 573
Made in New Zealand 948
Christmas Greetings and a Special Music Offering 1106
Watch the full recording of my May 26 Livestream Guitar Recital 2337
Podcast: RNZ Concert May 8th 1501
NZ Herald online edition, article... 1355
Upcoming solo album release 1283
Waikoropupū Springs protected... 1655
Where did all the concerts go? 1676
Update on concerts in 2023... 560
Sheet music update... 1390
End of online PDF sales... 1531
End of 2022 - Signs of life 1419
The Selwyn Recital now digital... 2358
Seikilos Chimes : video release 2181
Themes, Dreams and Seasons 2406
Trio recording announced... 2078
Online concert writeup May 22nd 2728
NZ Music Month - May 2020 2388
Summary 2019 2720
'Waitemata Reverie' NAXOS album out now! 3052
New Zealand Herald article 13 September.. 4543
New video released... 2892
Waitemata Reverie sheet music released 2954
The Selwyn Recital track downloads 2801
2018 Summary 3370
CD Launch - September 28th 2018... 3226
The Art of Sound and Motion - GFA premiere 3435
Why the ‘classical’ guitar? 3428
Q and A Spotlight on Bruce Paine 3905
High praise from 'The New Listener'… 3588
2017 in Summary 4074
Alberton Waltz - 6th out of 110! 3879
Premiere recordings of Paine... 4255
Music on Amazon... 4678
Indie Music... 4527
PDF Sheet Music... 4189
Alberton Waltz sheet music now available... 4261

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Francis Bacon, from The Advancement of Learning 1605

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