Handel and Marriage
To man God’s universal law
Gave power to keep the wife in awe
sings Handel in a comically dogmatic little chorus in Samson. But the universality of the law must be held to have failed in the case of Mr. and Mrs. M’Culloch.
Handel and a Letter to a Solicitor
Jones showed me a letter that had been received by the solicitor in whose office he was working:
“Dear Sir; I enclose the name of the lawyer of the lady I am engaged to and her name and address are Miss B. Richmond. His address is W. W. Esq. Manchester.
“I remain, Yours truly W. D. C.”
I said it reminded me of the opening bars of “Welcome, welcome, Mighty King” in Saul:
Handel’s Shower of Rain
The falling shower in the air “As cheers the sun” in Joshua is, I think, the finest description of a warm sunny refreshing rain that I have ever come across and one of the most wonderfully descriptive pieces of music that even Handel ever did.