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 ...
Tom Lehrer, a Cambridge-based scholar and songwriter with a knack for political satire, died Saturday, July 26 at 97. But his zany songs live on. Lehrer got his comedic start at Harvard University, ...
LOS ANGELES -- 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 ...
Renowned American satirist and mathematician Tom Lehrer died on 26 July 2025 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the age of 97. In the days following his passing, Lehrer's music has seen a resurgence in ...
LOS ANGELES — 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 ...