Tom Lehrer, the acclaimed musical satirist, has been in the limelight recently due to his passing on July 26, 2025, at the ...

A mathematician by training, he acquired a devoted following with songs that set sardonic lyrics to music that was often ...

The musical humorist used his Army experience as the basis for several of his songs, and in turn worked in references to his ...

Brief though his career as an entertainer was, Tom Lehrer inscribed his signature on a brainy, no-holds-barred brand of ...

Yet, in truth, satire—at least satire of great quality—lives just as long as any other kind of art. It keeps its objects ...

The mathematician, songwriter and satirist Tom Lehrer has died. In his later years, he put his musical work in the public ...

Like so many comedians, Lehrer got his start by going to Harvard. He wrote and recorded his first song, “Fight Fiercely ...

Tom Lehrer, who has died aged 97, wrote and performed such subversive ditties as Poisoning Pigeons in the Park and The ...

Obituary The field of satirists and hit singer-songwriters who were also professional mathematicians and lecturers is a very ...

Lehrer, who died Saturday, was a Harvard-educated math prodigy whose satirical music was everything my nerdy teenage self ...

Despite being best known for his humorous and satirical songs, Tom Lehrer, who died on 26 July at the age of 97, spent most ...

Almost every American schoolkid has heard the song: "There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium." Set to a tune from The ...