Fame is a drug, fed by attention, applause and money. Those who become addicted sometimes have a desperate need to hold on, even as the talents that brought renown begin to fade and eventually ...

Thomas A. Lehrer ’47 — a beloved musician and mathematics instructor who set sardonic commentary to upbeat piano melodies — died on July 26. He was 97. By Sophie Gao and Sarah F. Silverman Thomas A.

When he suddenly stopped, and the output dropped, he was presumed dead. No, Tom Lehrer replied. Just having fun commuting between the coasts, teaching maths for a quarter of the year, ie, the winter, ...

Lehrer’s sharp, pithy songs satirised contemporary culture and gripped audiences around the world, but he never wavered from his love for mathematics American satirical singer-songwriter, Tom Lehrer, ...

A measure of Tom Lehrer’s enduring accomplishments as a musical satirist is that the political songs he wrote remain as fresh and relevant today as they were when he sat solo at his piano, playing and ...

Tom Lehrer, the math prodigy who became an influential musical satirist with his barbed views of American social and political life in the 1950s and 1960s, has died at the age of 97, according to news ...

Tom Lehrer, the Harvard‑trained mathematician turned musical satirist, died on July 26, 2025, at age 97 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He never aimed to be a star—but somehow, he became one anyway. With ...

Brief though his career as an entertainer was, Tom Lehrer inscribed his signature on a brainy, no-holds-barred brand of political and social satire whose influence could be discerned decades later in ...

Musician and satirist Tom Lehrer died on Saturday at the age of 97. Lehrer was famously a Harvard man — admitted at age 15 in 1943 — and began to write and sing songs while an undergraduate there. He ...

Almost every American schoolkid has heard the song: "There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium." Set to a tune from The Pirates of Penzance, Tom Lehrer's cheery musical trip through the periodic ...

Thomas Andrew Lehrer, an amazing American polymath combining intellect, humour, and music, passed away on July 26, 2025, at the age of 97. He rose to prominence in the 1950s and 60s as a singer and ...

The mathematician and satirical songwriter was best known for his songs 'The Elements', 'The Masochism Tango' and the Cold War track 'We Will All Go Together When We Go'. Tom Lehrer, the celebrated ...