Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Reuters) -Tom Lehrer, the math prodigy who became an influential musical satirist with his barbed views of American social and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An image collage containing 1 images, Image 1 shows Musician Tom Lehrer sits beside the piano in his house in Santa Cruz, Calif., ...

Tom Lehrer, the sardonic singer-songwriter-pianist who rose to national fame after his dark, tartly funny topical songs were used on the comedic ‘60s TV news show “That Was the Week That Was,” has ...

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, the musical satirist and onetime mathematical prodigy whose lampooning lyrics skewered racism, the Catholic Church, marriage and the Cold War, has died. He was 97. Friends told Variety ...