Arwenclaythorn

Dear Sister,

Please stop considering yourself a Diehard Harry Potter Fan. It's Ginny, not Jenny, Remus Lupin isn't a vampire, and simply exclaiming Expelliarmus in front of your boyfriend doesn't make you one.

Sincerely, You have brought shame to our family.

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Dear Harry Potter fans,

The first Harry Potter book was published the year that the Battle of Hogwarts took place

Sincerely, "I open at the close"

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Dear Books,

I want to take you home, pull off your jacket, run my hand down your spine and curl up with you on the couch.

Sincerely, Bibliophile

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Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz by Werner Wejp-Olsen for January 28, 2014

Dear heteros,

Please stop calling Justin Beiber gay. We don't want him either.

Sincerely, homosexuals

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Welcome to In Tune, your weekly classical news feed on CBC Radio 2. Saturdays at noon, Katherine Duncan shares the classical music and musicians people are listening to and talking about, here in Canada and around the world. Here's a look at the stories we're featuring this week.

Fans of UK soap opera Coronation Street are divided over the tragic suicide this week of a beloved character suffering from terminal cancer. But they do agree on the excellent acting and the choice of a favourite British classical composition, Vaughan Williams' Lark Ascending, as the soundtrack to the character's final moments.

You may have heard of musicology as the study of classical music history. Now here's a new musical discipline. Ludomusicology is the study of music composed especially for video games. It's a growing international academic phenomenon.

Congratulations to Tafelmusik's Jeanne Lamon who has been appointed to the Order of Ontario, the province's highest official award. This week Lamon, violinist and longtime music director of Tafelmusik gets set to give her first performances in the newly refurbished concert hall that's been renamed in her honour.

Italian conductor Claudio Abbado died this week at the age of 80. He's being remembered as one of the true giants of classical music. Websites such as medici.tv and the Berlin Philharmonic's Digital Concert Hall are streaming some of his most memorable performances for free as a tribute to Abbado. One tweet from @WarnerClassicUSA refers to this video as "the single most perfect example imaginable of why we already miss Claudio Abbado."

Summer in February is a new film with a top-notch soundtrack composed by Benjamin Wallfisch. Performers include his father, cellist Rafael Wallfisch and superstar pianist Yuja Wang. The album is available now on the Deutsche Grammphon label.

The 23rd annual Winnipeg New Music Festival kicks off Jan. 25. This year this festival takes a closer look at Pierre Boulez and Frank Zappa.

Bach wrote his Inventions as teaching pieces for his son, and we most often hear them performed by students. American concert pianist Simone Dinnerstein's latest album on Sony offers a rare chance to hear them performed as pure music, by a master. You can also stream the album here until Jan. 27.

The Minnesota Orchestra and it's musicians finally have a deal after the longest symphony orchestra lockout ever. The orchestra may have more good news. Their recording of Sibelius symphonies is up for a Grammy Award. The 56th Grammy Awards are on Jan. 26.

Dear younger sister,

Thanks for changing all of my contact names to Harry Potter characters.

Sincerely, I had a laugh because my boss' name is now Dolores Umbridge.

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Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz by Werner Wejp-Olsen for January 20, 2014

Dear Future Husband,

If, when I'm pregnant, you pick me up and dramatically say, "I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you!" I will fall in love with you all over again.

Sincerely, I can't stop laughing just picturing that!

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Ziggy by Tom Wilson & Tom II for October 09, 2013

Dear people in the elevator,

You must be wondering why I gathered you here.

Sincerely, okay, probably not, but hell, your faces were priceless!

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Dear Y,

We regret to inform you that you have been put on the waiting list for Vowel University.

Sincerely, A - E - I - O - U

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