Tom Lehrer, the mathematician and song satirist who had a massive musical influence in the 1950s and 1960s, has died. He was 97. Lehrer died Saturday at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, his ...

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, an acerbic songwriter and Harvard-trained mathematician who rose to fame in the 1950s and ’60s by pillorying the sensibilities of the day, has died at age 97. Lehrer died at his home in ...

The recent death of Tom Lehrer, who died Saturday at 97, brought back fond memories of my years as a university and medical student in Boston during the 1960s (“Math whiz found fame as a musical ...

This is FRESH AIR. Tom Lehrer, the composer and occasional performer of such satirical, often topical songs like "Pollution" and "Vatican Rag," died last week at the age of 97. Our TV critic David ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — 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 ...

FILE - Musician Tom Lehrer sits beside the piano in his house in Santa Cruz, Calif., on April 21, 2000. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File) LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tom Lehrer, the popular song satirist who ...