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Auckland Classical Guitarist Bruce Paine - Blog

Articles
Title Hits
The Value of Music 228
Seasons Greetings and a Musical Gift for 2025 287
BandCamp Listening Party - November 16, 2025, 7:30 PM GMT+13 374
A Change in Direction 324
Quality, Not Quantity 268
Rediscovering Focus Online 535
Through Familiar Eyes 338
New Editions Now Available 578
New Release: Seikilos Chimes for Solo Guitar 406
Four Māori Folk Song–Inspired Works Now Published! 512
AI - What can you belief? 466
Blast from the past... 517
A Note on Homegrown Recordings 566
Made in New Zealand 942
Christmas Greetings and a Special Music Offering 1096
Watch the full recording of my May 26 Livestream Guitar Recital 2328
Podcast: RNZ Concert May 8th 1493
NZ Herald online edition, article... 1349
Upcoming solo album release 1278
Waikoropupū Springs protected... 1643
Where did all the concerts go? 1659
Update on concerts in 2023... 551
Sheet music update... 1382
End of online PDF sales... 1522
End of 2022 - Signs of life 1413
The Selwyn Recital now digital... 2355
Seikilos Chimes : video release 2176
Themes, Dreams and Seasons 2398
Trio recording announced... 2071
Online concert writeup May 22nd 2723
NZ Music Month - May 2020 2380
Summary 2019 2714
'Waitemata Reverie' NAXOS album out now! 3042
New Zealand Herald article 13 September.. 4537
New video released... 2885
Waitemata Reverie sheet music released 2950
The Selwyn Recital track downloads 2794
2018 Summary 3365
CD Launch - September 28th 2018... 3223
The Art of Sound and Motion - GFA premiere 3427
Why the ‘classical’ guitar? 3423
Q and A Spotlight on Bruce Paine 3899
High praise from 'The New Listener'… 3579
2017 in Summary 4066
Alberton Waltz - 6th out of 110! 3875
Premiere recordings of Paine... 4248
Music on Amazon... 4672
Indie Music... 4523
PDF Sheet Music... 4181
Alberton Waltz sheet music now available... 4256

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Francis Bacon, from The Advancement of Learning 1605

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