Tom Lehrer, song satirist and mathematician, dies
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EXCLUSIVE: In a tribute shared exclusively with Deadline, musical theater impresario Sir Cameron Mackintosh has remembered Tom Lehrer, the musical comedy legend, who has died at the age of 97. Lehrer died on July 26 at his home in Cambridge,
Lehrer, who died Saturday, was a Harvard-educated math prodigy whose satirical music was everything my nerdy teenage self craved.
Tom Lehrer died on Saturday, aged 97. His album That Was the Year That Was records a live performance, including his introductory stage backchat to his own songs. At one point, he says, “It is a sobering
Musician and satirist Tom Lehrer stuck his alma mater into his music. Here's all the times he was singing about Harvard.
There never was a time like the 1950s — not even during the 1950s. Not if you have in mind the decade of conformity, of moms in pearls and churchgoing families, of patriotic youth and apple pies cooling on the sills of tidy new suburban homes.
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