Music Making a Family Value

Scott & Lucy

Before NABGC supporters Lucy Lang and Scott Asher had impressive careers in (respectively) law and business, there was music in their lives. 

Lucy, who is New York Inspector General, credits her experience in musical theater with preparing her to lead people to work together, whereas her husband, Scott, was interested in opera as a young man. He even had a stint as an intern at City Opera, even though he says he wasn’t eager to make singing a career.

“I went to Quaker schools for much of my life, and I had been interested in consensus building and of seeing the inner light in everyone,” Lucy says. It was at one of those Quaker schools, Swarthmore College, that she met and became friends with Seth Steed, a NABGC alum and now a Civil Court Judge in Manhattan.

NABGC singing at the Lang’s home in September 2022

It followed that Lucy was interested in restorative justice rather than relying solely on harsh criminal penalties to address crime when she ran to replace Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance. Although she wasn’t elected, she hasn’t given up on those values.

Music still matters to her. Lucy is thrilled that their two children are approaching an age when she can take them to Broadway musicals. “The theater is where I can let my guard down,” she says. Two current musicals—The Music Man and Wicked—are among her favorites.