Milton Babbbitt Who Care If You Listen Analysis

Milton Babbitt was a composer who specialized in serial and electronic music. In his article Who Cares if you Listen, Babbitt states that the distance between the composer and his audience has increased. This is mainly due to the fact that most listeners of music are ill-equipped to handle such a different and unique subgenre of the music culture. Babbitt goes on to say that the public only likes the music that is performed on the various stages across the globe because it is the popular genre of music. If asked why they like the music they would give only qualitative descriptions of the performance but not actually what composers want to hear, which is detailed descriptions of the content of the musical piece.
Babbitt compares this to a layman