Periodic table showing the newest chemical elements. In 1959, comedian Tom Lehrer set the periodic table of the elements to the tune of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “I Am the Very Model of a Modern ...
Tom Lehrer, the celebrated musician and satirist renowned for his dark humor and sharp wit, has died at 97. The Harvard mathematician rose to prominence in the 1950s and 60s with his clever, ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tom Lehrer, the popular and erudite song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching math at ...
It would perhaps behoove us, from an interest-drawing perspective, to begin this piece upon the death of intellectual satirist Tom Lehrer to note that Daniel Radcliffe is a fan. Granted, that's parody ...
Born in New York to a Jewish family, he started piano at 7, devoured the American songbook, and could mimic any style on the keys. A prodigy, he entered Harvard at 15, graduated magna cum laude in ...
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 ...
FILE - Musician Tom Lehrer sits beside the piano in his house in Santa Cruz, Calif., on April 21, 2000. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File) (Paul Sakuma, Copyright 2025 The ...
Tom Lehrer, the math prodigy who became an influential musical satirist with his barbed views of American social and political life in the 1950s and 1960s, has died at the age of 97, according to news ...