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Thomas A. Lehrer ’47 — a beloved musician and mathematics instructor who set sardonic commentary to upbeat piano melodies — ...
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 universities, ...
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 ...
The West End impresario said US song satirist Lehrer, who has died aged 97, ‘was a very special kind of genius’.
Starting Point newsletter I discovered Tom Lehrer in high school. His transgressive black humor hooked me. Lehrer, who died Saturday, was a Harvard-educated math prodigy whose satirical music was ...
Cameron Boyce's mom, Libby Boyce, took to Instagram on Monday to thank Adam Sandler for including her son in a short blink-and-you-miss-it scene toward the beginning of "Happy Gilmore 2." ...
West End impresario Sir Cameron Mackintosh has remembered US song satirist Tom Lehrer as “wry, generous and utterly original” following his death aged 97.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tom Lehrer, the popular song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his music career to ...
NEWS 29 July 2025 Scientists mourn Tom Lehrer — nerdiest of singer-songwriters The mathematician’s memorable satires are beloved by generations of researchers.
“Satire in America is…at best a fragile plant, and never more so than now…Yet, when it works, satire is in the first instance a source of permanent pleasure, and offers the long echo of laughter, as ...
Those were the days. I suggest that you listen to Tom Lehrer and the music of the Crystal Palace. And if you are hearing these for the first time, you are welcome.
What about Tom Lehrer, who died on July 26? He's famous to me. With the addition of Mangione, Leher, and Francis, we're up to six famous people dying within 10 days of each other.