Daniel Lazour

Daniel Lazour is a musician, composer, and music-theater writer best known as one half of the Lazour brothers writing team with Patrick Lazour. Their works include the musical “Night Side Songs,” “We Live in Cairo,” and other stage and screen music projects; the brothers are Richard Rodgers Award and Jonathan Larson Grant recipients.

Communal Singing Reframes Illness as a Shared Practice of Care

At Aspen Ideas: Health, emergency physician and musician Jeremy Faust joined Patrick and Daniel Lazour to make the case behind their cancer musical Night Side Songs: communal singing can turn private illness into shared care. The Lazours argue that patients, caregivers, and clinicians do not need forced optimism or perfect language so much as practices that help them remain present with one another through treatment, grief, remission, and ordinary life.

The Aspen InstituteJun 24, 202618 min read