Reaction Essay on Music

Reaction Essay to:
"New World Symphony", "The Cool War" and "Oprah Winfrey to Back Purple"
By Russell Platt, Brian Morton and Edward Wyatt
Russell Platt's article, "New World Symphony", outlines some of the major obstacles he feels that classical music faces in today's society. Brian Morton's article, "The Cool War", sketches out a comparison between music, politics and propaganda. And Edward Wyatt's article, "Oprah Winfrey to Back Purple", comments on the Marxist propaganda used to get Alice Walker's book, "The Color Purple," turned into a staged musical. In all three of these article…