@RichardBratby Richard - there is an answer to that payment problem. If you say 'pay half by Paypal now' - they generally do, and it's instant
English
Tim Coates
7.7K posts
Tim Coates
@coates_tim
Tim Coates, former ceo, Waterstones, is a consultant in publishing and library industries in the US and Europe. He is the author of 'The Freckle Report 2021'
Katılım Mayıs 2014
315 Takip Edilen348 Takipçiler
@coates_tim 80% of the stress in my life is caused by two phrases. "PLEASE, can you do it for tomorrow - thank you, you're amazing!" Followed by: "Invoices will take a minimum of four weeks to process". I find Mozart's plight very relatable.
Lichfield, England 🇬🇧 English
When literary folk say this it's a joke but in classical music circles it's practically an orthodoxy. Some musos got terribly upset with me a couple of weeks back for saying that music is entertainment before it's anything else. And they wonder why they're not more popular...
John Attridge@John_Attridge
"I'm really enjoying this novel" no. Enjoyment is a distraction. To appreciate fictional form, you must rigorously avoid all feelings of pleasure
Lichfield, England 🇬🇧 English
@RichardBratby His (Mozart's) father is much criticised - but he warned exactly that if there wasn't regular income he would die with an impoverished wife and starving children - which is exactly what happened
English
@RichardBratby This is the piece:
Constanze Mozart
“I want to tell you what really happened…..”
Jane Asher
Fflyr Wyn(soprano) and Andrew Matthews-Owen (piano)
Compiled from letters and diaries
by Tim Coates
English
@RichardBratby Yes- I think that's a fair description. The best books on that I found are by Christoph Wolff
English
@coates_tim As I understand it he generally did OK; he was just caught in the classic freelancer trap of high regular outlays and slow or irregular client payments.
Lichfield, England 🇬🇧 English
@AuthorGFAllen It depends what for - children rarely read eBooks and illustrated books are really only satisfactory in print, but most (well, more) fiction is read on eBooks or listened to, at the moment
English
Anyone else still prefer physical books over ebooks or audiobooks?
English
@RichardBratby Yes- but that didn't go so well - anyhow they aren't incompatible !
I've just been writing about Constanze - it's to be performed soon - a good cast.
English
@coates_tim He went one better. He said that his main aim was to make a great deal of money "which, after health, is the best thing you can have in life".
Lichfield, England 🇬🇧 English
Sometimes, philosophers just write in a way to make themselves feel intelligent by ensuring everyone else has no idea what they're actually saying.
English
@musicandroots I think that's right. Experienced librarians fell for the idea that their work was about 'technology' rather than about what people have written and others want to read. They have been on a wrong path for 40 years
English
This is brilliant! Thank you
HistoryandHeritageYorkshire@GenealogyBeech
🧵3 posts The Battle of York, 21 March 867, saw the Viking "Great Army" decisively defeat Northumbrian forces, Unlike previous raiding parties the army was a larger-scale invasion force that landed in East Anglia in 865, aiming for conquest. Northumbria was a weakened region
English
Serious questions : why do public libraries put labels on the spines of books, when book stores don't? Do libraries have to do that?
The labels are part of an expensive process that ultimately restricts the numbers of books the libraries can offer.
English
@NLebrecht Life and career as a skilled musician are very difficult matters. You don't have to look far to understand that. Respectfully, leave her alone
English
From Audit Committee papers.
Liverpool City Council has a total workforce of 6,100 staff.
The total pay bill is approximately £300m.
English
Short stories a great. They're fun to read. Powerful. Impactful. They're great for teaching too. Plot. Structure. Characters. Everything must be meaningful in a short story. They teach what is truly important in the art of story-telling.
English
"Fiction" is far more real and impactful than "non-fiction" especially of the "self-help" and "improve yourself" variety. Stories are the best reading realities for becoming a better person.
English
@DavidDeutschOxf David - you wouldn't know but we lived only a few doors from your mother in Fordwych Road. I often used to sit with her and when she talked of you, she was very proud (rightly, I suspect!) tim
English
BTW the original meaning of 'Revolution' as in the American Revolution or The Glorious Revolution was 'restoration of normality'. I.e. *error correction*. The term was misused by Jacobins and Marxists to mean wholesale replacement of 'what went before' by something entirely new.
Elon Musk@elonmusk
English