Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.
Dietrich Fischer-DieskauIf you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief.
Dietrich Fischer-DieskauWithin each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plough. The trick is just to wake them up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau