The series in which readers answer other readers’ questions explores the sounds and music that play on repeat mentally – and how to escape their aural clutches ...

Read a conversation with Bobby about the show and Tom Lehrer’s comedy legacy. How did you initially discover the work of Tom Lehrer? I was introduced to Tom Lehrer at such a young age that I cannot ...

Tom Lehrer died at the age of 97, on 26 July, which is both a good innings and a while ago for an obituary, but Lehrer never fitted in with conventional timelines. His peak popularity as a performer ...

Tom Lehrer, the American singer-songwriter who became well known for his biting and satirical songs on social and political topics in the 1960s, died at the age of 97 last month at his home in ...

Looking back, I’m not sure what our parents must have thought as they sat in the audience. Granted, they’d heard some pretty weird stuff from the Longmont High School choirs before. But there’s weird ...

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 as to whether Tom Lehrer had ever performed in New Haven, given that he was ...

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 ...

Tom Lehrer, the Harvard-educated mathematician whose brief side gig as one of America’s favorite satirical composers captured in tune some of the anxieties and absurdities of the 1950s and 1960s, has ...

EXCLUSIVE: In a tribute shared exclusively with Deadline, musical theater impresario Sir Cameron Mackintosh has remembered Tom Lehrer, the musical comedy legend, who has died at the age of 97. Lehrer ...

Tom Lehrer, a musical satirist and mathematician, died July 26, 2025, at his Cambridge, Massachusetts, home. His friend and executor, David Herder, confirmed his death. He was 97 years old and had ...

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 ...