For 50 years John Weinzweig has fought on all fronts for the cause of New Music. Throughout, he has maintained the dry and often acerbic wit that sustains his music.

In addition to being an intimate portrait of a composer, THE RADICAL ROMANTIC is also the universal story of a visionary's struggle against a conformist world, an entertaining inside view of the compositional process that serves to demystify the unfamiliar sounds of modern classical music.