Neo-Romantic composers like Jennifer - seek to incorporate nineteenth-century characteristics including program music while at the same time aiming to ""modernize"" the nineteenth-century - tradition

Neorromanticism is a contemporary compositional trend that develops compositional structures of late romanticism but with new musical elements.

Among the most prominent composers of this current are George Rochberg, who composed music in series, Nicholas Maw and David Del Tredici. A notable work of the period is the First Symphony of John Corigliano.