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At any rate he twice went to Germany without being at any pains to meet him, and once, if not twice, refused Bach's invitation. ii Rockstro says that Handel keeps much more closely to the old Palestrina rules of counterpoint than Bach does, and that when Handel takes a licence it is a good bold one taken rarely, whereas Bach is niggling away with small licences from first to last.
Handel and Madame Patey Rockstro told me that Sir Michael Costa, after his severe paralytic stroke, had to conduct at some great performance I cannot be sure, but I think he said a Birmingham Festival at any rate he came in looking very white and feeble and sat down in front of the orchestra to conduct a morning rehearsal.
In his private chapel at night the bishop began his verse of the psalms always well before we had done the response to the preceding verse. It reminded me of what Rockstro had said a few weeks earlier to the effect that a point of imitation was always more effective if introduced before the other voices had finished.
J. A. Fuller Maitland, then musical critic of the Times; he introduced us to that learned musician William Smith Rockstro, under whom we studied medieval counterpoint while composing Ulysses.
"What are you talking about?" "Get off your horse a minute," suggested Whispering Smith, dismounting, "and step over here toward the creek." The man, afraid to refuse and unwilling to go, walked haltingly after Smith. "What is it, Rockstro?" asked his tormentor. "Don't you like this country? What do you want to go back to the penitentiary for? Aren't you happy here?
"Look here!" muttered Rockstro, following, with his good eye glued on his companion. "I pulled on you too quick, I guess quicker'n I'd ought to." "Don't mention it. You didn't pull quick enough; it is humiliating to have a man that's as slow as you are pull on me. People that pull on me usually pull and shoot at the same time.
J. A. Fuller Maitland, then musical critic of the Times; he introduced us to that learned musician William Smith Rockstro, under whom we studied medieval counterpoint while composing Ulysses.
W. S. Rockstro, was giving me lessons in medieval counterpoint; so I particularly noticed the music at divine service. The hymns were very silly, and of the usual Gounod-Barnby character.
I told Rockstro about it and said that the bishop's instinct had guided him correctly certainly I found his method more satisfactory than if he had waited till we had finished. Rockstro smiled, and knowing that I was at the time forbidden to work, said: "Satan finds some mischief still for idle brains to do."
Rockstro said that Händel was engaged more than once; once to the aforementioned Vittoria Tesi this in spite of the tradition that woman proposed and man disposed; and later to two other women. Rockstro bases this last doubtless on the account given in that strangely named book, "Anecdotes of Händel and J.C. Smith, with compositions by J.C. Smith."
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