Tom Lehrer Escaped the Transience of Satire
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Lehrer, who died Saturday, was a Harvard-educated math prodigy whose satirical music was everything my nerdy teenage self craved.
EXCLUSIVE: In a tribute shared exclusively with Deadline, musical theater impresario Sir Cameron Mackintosh has remembered Tom Lehrer, the musical comedy legend, who has died at the age of 97. Lehrer died on July 26 at his home in Cambridge,
If you’ve ever laughed at a satirical song, whether watching a panel show, a live comedy gig or on Radio 4, there’s a good chance that it would not have existed without Tom Lehrer, the brilliant mathematician and musician who has 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.