That first album soon sold 350,000, fueled primarily by word of mouth, especially on college campuses. Most Chicagoans first ...

Thomas A. Lehrer ’47 — a beloved musician and mathematics instructor who set sardonic commentary to upbeat piano melodies — ...

The mathematician-turned-musician wrote songs that, decades later, still make readers laugh.

Hanukkah in Santa Monica” debuted in 1990, well after Lehrer’s peak as a performer, on a come-from-retirement performance on Garrison Keillor’s radio show.

Lehrer, who died July 26, wrote numerous satirical songs, including "Pollution" and "The Vatican Rag." In the latter half of his life, he also taught math at Harvard and MIT.

Alison Kaplan fell for Tom Lehrer's parody songs long before she met Mark Russell. Then she fell for Russell's parodies – and ...

To try and top their retellings of Lehrer’s legacy would be folly. Instead, the story to be told here is one that clarifies ...

Tom Lehrer walked away from the piano at the height of his fame. He didn’t lose a publisher or scandalize an audience or ...

Given last week’s news of the death at the age of 97 of America’s most acerbic and creative musical satirist, I was curious ...

Tom Lehrer, the Harvard mathematician and satirical songwriter, has died aged 97. Known for sharp wit and classic tracks like ...

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 universities, ...

Satire can quickly become outworn and anachronistic but can also achieve enduring appeal — not only when its subject matter remains relevant and urgent but when delivered by a true master of the form, ...