I’m the founder of Late to the Game Music and also an orchestra librarian. My passion for forgotten and historically neglected works grew from conversations with friends who opened my eyes to the incredible music of women composers and composers of color—music that has long been overshadowed in the classical canon. The great, mostly-German-and-Austrian composers deserve their time in the sun, but the music world needs a change of pace. Late to the Game exists to help make that a reality.
Through my work as a librarian, I’ve also seen how challenging it can be for low- and mid-budget orchestras to afford quality editions of music, especially when high rental fees are required for just a single performance. That’s why I started Late to the Game Music: to offer affordable, high-quality editions of not only forgotten works but also the beloved classics, making great music accessible to all kinds of orchestras.
How many times have you purchased or played a piece of music rife with errors and wondered, “How did this happen and why hasn’t it been fixed?” That ends here. All publishers strive for accuracy, but at Late to the Game Music, we fix errors when they’re found, we credit the people who find the mistakes, and we issue corrected editions to people who have purchased our work. Think of it like a musician’s version of a bug bounty in tech. Find an error? Contact us. Simple as that.
