Several composers specifically asked for a children's choir.

Occasionally composers such as Béla Bartók ask for them to be played from top to bottom.

Technique allows you to make the notes come through, to do what the composer asks, and to interpret the music by using your own personality.

He was a strict conductor who thought it was very important that the players should do exactly what the composer asks for in the score.

The composer asks that the marches be distributed throughout the program, not played all at once.

The composer asked that nobody applaud; inevitably, someone did anyway.

In some forms, composers sometimes link the movements, or ask for them to be played without a pause between them.

At evening's end a young composer asked Mr. Glass's advice about the profession.

In the 19th century the Romantic composers often asked for pizzicato.

The composer could not ask for better advocates.