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  • Tom Lehrer, song satirist and mathematician, dies at 97

    07/28/2025 2:27:50 PM PDT · by Governor Dinwiddie · 26 replies
    CNN ^ | July 27, 2025 | AP
    Tom Lehrer, the popular and erudite 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, has died. He was 97. Lehrer had remained on the math faculty of the University of California at Santa Cruz well into his late 70s. In 2020, he even turned away from his own copyright, granting the public permission to use his lyrics in any format without any fee in return. A Harvard prodigy (he had earned a math degree from the institution at age 18), Lehrer...
  • Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97

    07/27/2025 11:54:05 PM PDT · by Cronos · 34 replies
    New York times ^ | 27th July 2025 | Richard severe, Peter Keepnose
    A mathematician by training, he acquired a devoted following with songs that set sardonic lyrics to music that was often maddeningly cheerful. Tom Lehrer, the Harvard-trained mathematician whose wickedly iconoclastic songs made him a favorite satirist in the 1950s and ’60s on college campuses and in all the Greenwich Villages of the country, died on Saturday at his home in Cambridge, Mass. He was 97. Lehrer’s lyrics were nimble, sometimes salacious and almost always sardonic, sung to music that tended to be maddeningly cheerful. Accompanying himself on piano, he performed in nightclubs, in concert and on records that his admirers...
  • Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97

    07/27/2025 9:59:50 AM PDT · by Borges · 79 replies
    NYT ^ | 7/27/25 | Peter Keepnews and Richard Severo
    Tom Lehrer, the Harvard-trained mathematician whose wickedly iconoclastic songs made him a favorite satirist in the 1950s and ’60s on college campuses and in all the Greenwich Villages of the country, died on Saturday at his home in Cambridge, Mass. He was 97. His death was confirmed by David Herder, a friend. Mr. Lehrer’s lyrics were nimble, sometimes salacious and almost always sardonic, sung to music that tended to be maddeningly cheerful. Accompanying himself on piano, he performed in nightclubs, in concert and on records that his admirers purchased, originally by mail order only, in the hundreds of thousands. But...