Stace chooses texts that describe mystical experience, rather than interpret or analyse it.
Brahms has chosen texts which centre on lost youth, summer turning into spring and, ultimately, man's mortality.
Some more scholarly types choose texts like the Four Questions from the Haggadah.
Others choose less sacred texts, like transcripts from the O. J. Simpson trial.
Perhaps the major problem in choosing critical texts to read and refer to is whether or not to use specialised student textbooks.
Public school administrators are no more qualified to choose texts or determine curriculums than are college administrators.
In writing songs, he mostly chose Swedish texts; but this program presented some Finnish works as well.
Luening chose texts with discerning literary taste and set words with admirable clarity.
He chose untranslated French texts by three poets.
This recording offers three of his song cycles, nicely demonstrating his skill at choosing texts and matching them to music.
