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Longtime friend David Herder said Lehrer died Saturday at his home in Cambridge. He did not specify a cause of death.
A mathematician by training, he acquired a devoted following with songs that set sardonic lyrics to music that was often ...
Singer-songwriter Tom Lehrer, who gained prominence for his political satire, has reportedly died at the age of 97.
Musician and satirist Tom Lehrer stuck his alma mater into his music. Here's all the times he was singing about Harvard.
The influential comic stylist and mathematician rose to fame lampooning mainstream American mores in the 1950s and 1960s, ...
Tom Lehrer, the Harvard-educated mathematician whose brief side gig as one of America’s favorite satirical composers captured ...
Tom Lehrer, the popular song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his ...
It’s very flattering that people remember the songs and have kept them alive all these years,” Mr. Lehrer told The Boston ...