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Fair enough on the Ravel tip. I was lucky enough never to have had any of it shoved down my throat - it's all been a process of discovery for me so Daphnis et Chloe et al are pure magic - especially from an orchestration point of view. Plus, to be honest, I'm sick to death of Mozart, Beethoven, Bach and the like. Ol' Wolfgang may have never written a bad note but that's all he ever did. Write notes. Never textures. That said, had he been born a century or two later he probably would have kicked the shit out of all my current favourites so I can't really hold it against him.

Nice wand, sorry you're disappointed by the book. Or was it the movie? I actually quite enjoyed the movie but haven't read the book yet - so no spoilers!

Love it....especially the spell.....quite funny.