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Auckland Classical Guitarist Bruce Paine - Blog

Articles
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The Value of Music 27
Seasons Greetings and a Musical Gift for 2025 163
BandCamp Listening Party - November 16, 2025, 7:30 PM GMT+13 239
A Change in Direction 279
Quality, Not Quantity 226
Rediscovering Focus Online 487
Through Familiar Eyes 301
New Editions Now Available 524
New Release: Seikilos Chimes for Solo Guitar 355
Four Māori Folk Song–Inspired Works Now Published! 457
AI - What can you belief? 426
Blast from the past... 486
A Note on Homegrown Recordings 516
Made in New Zealand 896
Christmas Greetings and a Special Music Offering 1048
Watch the full recording of my May 26 Livestream Guitar Recital 2282
Podcast: RNZ Concert May 8th 1454
NZ Herald online edition, article... 1304
Upcoming solo album release 1237
Waikoropupū Springs protected... 1586
Where did all the concerts go? 1591
Update on concerts in 2023... 501
Sheet music update... 1327
End of online PDF sales... 1476
End of 2022 - Signs of life 1368
The Selwyn Recital now digital... 2316
Seikilos Chimes : video release 2141
Themes, Dreams and Seasons 2351
Trio recording announced... 2034
Online concert writeup May 22nd 2685
NZ Music Month - May 2020 2334
Summary 2019 2669
'Waitemata Reverie' NAXOS album out now! 2998
New Zealand Herald article 13 September.. 4504
New video released... 2836
Waitemata Reverie sheet music released 2918
The Selwyn Recital track downloads 2751
2018 Summary 3320
CD Launch - September 28th 2018... 3199
The Art of Sound and Motion - GFA premiere 3379
Why the ‘classical’ guitar? 3398
Q and A Spotlight on Bruce Paine 3856
High praise from 'The New Listener'… 3545
2017 in Summary 4018
Alberton Waltz - 6th out of 110! 3823
Premiere recordings of Paine... 4204
Music on Amazon... 4610
Indie Music... 4457
PDF Sheet Music... 4139
Alberton Waltz sheet music now available... 4212

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Francis Bacon, from The Advancement of Learning 1605

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