As much as I love the choral part of the end of Mahler's 2nd, overall his music strikes me as "if you emphasize everything, you emphasize nothing." Try Copland and Stravinsky, and in general I'd suggest starting with the LAST symphony a composer wrote.

(OT!) Hey, @gtconway.bsky.social - watching you suck on a lozenge (I think?) on GC-SL and thought I should mention that painkillers work on sore throats. Hope (if applicable) you feel better soon.

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This one seems like it’s for your personal entertainment, @jvl.bsky.social www.facebook.com/reel/5592226...

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Both "avoid formal chemical language" and simply just steering clear of industrially manufactured foods when possible make it easier for those who don't have a scientific background to act on a heuristic.

Aside from that, people get allergies to chemicals (whether unprocessed or manufactured) and it's very difficult to isolate. For example, I'm allergic to peppers, so if something says "all natural spices" I don't even try it.

First great effort! Also, quick push-back: The "can't pronounce ingredients" and "don't eat processed foods" are both oversimplifications for the FDA testing mostly for toxicity/carcinogenicity, but not for longterm accumulated exposure, etc.

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I guess it depends on why you're referring to yourself in a professional context. If you were at a conference of journalists "music writer" seems clear. If at a conference of music directors, musicians, and composers, you probably could just use "journalist."