In 2006, Russell was originally nominated for a Tony Award for Best Original Score for her work on The Color Purple. While it ultimately didn’t win, the score and the Theater album are still heralded.

With a voice that whispers sincerity and a catalog built on love, redemption, and healing, KEM has quietly but powerfully carved out his place in modern soul music. Emerging in the early 2000s with a ...

It’s very flattering that people remember the songs and have kept them alive all these years,” Mr. Lehrer told The Boston ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tom Lehrer, the American singer-songwriter, satirist, and mathematician, died at the age of 97 on July 26, 2025, at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Mac DeMarco's upcoming album seemingly continues the vein of stripped back alternative ballads. A soundscape in which he has ...

The influential comic stylist and mathematician rose to fame lampooning mainstream American mores in the 1950s and 1960s, ...

Tom Lehrer, the legendary satirical songwriter and mathematician, has died at the age of 97 at his home in Cambridge, ...

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

Ooh, eeh, ooh aah aah/Ting tang, wallawalla bing bang!” They just don’t write lyrics like those anymore. Perhaps for good reason but, that snippet is from a No. 1 hit in 1958.