MUSICAL BOX: Ravel's Miroirs

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I AM ALMOST certain that I first read about today's choice in a book by Clive James, but I can't remember which one. Appropriately enough, I thought it was in Unreliable Memoirs, the first volume of James’ entertaining autobiography, but I’ve skimmed through it twice and I can't find any reference to Miroirs. Did I dream it? Perhaps it was mentioned in …