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Popular song satirist Tom Lehrer, who abandoned his music career to return to teaching math at Harvard and other universities ...
A mathematician by training, he acquired a devoted following with songs that set sardonic lyrics to music that was often ...
Thomas A. Lehrer ’47 — a beloved musician and mathematics instructor who set sardonic commentary to upbeat piano melodies — ...
Musician and satirist Tom Lehrer stuck his alma mater into his music. Here's all the times he was singing about Harvard.
Tom Lehrer, the American singer-songwriter who became famous for his witty and politically charged songs, has died at the age ...
Tom Lehrer gained a popular following in the 1950s and ’60s lampooning marriage, politics, racism ,and the Cold War, and then ...
Tom Lehrer, a Cambridge-based satirical songwriter that got his start at Harvard University, has died at age 97. You may know some of his songs ...
The legendary satirist who rose to fame in the ’50s and ’60s with darkly funny songs about war, politics, and society has ...
Lehrer, who died July 26, wrote numerous satirical songs, including "Pollution" and "The Vatican Rag." In the latter half of his life, he also taught math at Harvard and MIT.
Tom Lehrer's Hanukkah song, commissioned by Garrison Keillor in 1990, was one of the first popular tunes about a Jewish ...
Tom Lehrer, the popular song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching math at Harvard and other ...
The influential comic stylist and mathematician rose to fame lampooning mainstream American mores in the 1950s and 1960s, ...