That first album soon sold 350,000, fueled primarily by word of mouth, especially on college campuses. Most Chicagoans first ...

Thomas A. Lehrer ’47 — a beloved musician and mathematics instructor who set sardonic commentary to upbeat piano melodies — ...

Alison Kaplan fell for Tom Lehrer's parody songs long before she met Mark Russell. Then she fell for Russell's parodies – and ...

I knew both of them. Political opposites, John Stone and Tom Lehrer, nevertheless had a similar characteristic that shaped ...

To try and top their retellings of Lehrer’s legacy would be folly. Instead, the story to be told here is one that clarifies ...

Hanukkah in Santa Monica” debuted in 1990, well after Lehrer’s peak as a performer, on a come-from-retirement performance on Garrison Keillor’s radio show.

Tom Lehrer walked away from the piano at the height of his fame. He didn’t lose a publisher or scandalize an audience or ...

Tom Lehrer ( Obituaries, August 2) once said that satire died when Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize. I fear the last laugh has now passed as well! With universal bereavement for Lehrer’s ...

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 ...

The satirical songwriter plays "Pollution" from his 1965 album "That Was The Year That Was." Aired Jan. 4, 1966 on CBC's The ...

In this episode, we honor musical-comic genius Tom Lehrer and Tex-Mex legend Flaco Jimenez. Plus, new music from Detroit artists and more.

This mischievously twisted masterpiece was first inspired in Lehrer by a US city's actual official pest pigeon-eradication ...