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

Singer-songwriter Tom Lehrer, who gained prominence for his political satire, has reportedly died at the age of 97.

A mathematician by training, he acquired a devoted following with songs that set sardonic lyrics to music that was often ...

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.

The influential comic stylist and mathematician rose to fame lampooning mainstream American mores in the 1950s and 1960s, ...

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 ...

Tom Lehrer, a song satirist who gained a popular following in the 1950s and ’60s lampooning marriage, politics, racism 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, 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 ...