Los Angeles – Tom Lehrr, the famous song, who mocked marriage, politics, racism, and the cold war, died, and then abandoned his musical life to a large extent to return to teaching mathematics at Harvard University and other universities. He was 97 years old.
His friend David Herder has long said that Leswar died on Saturday at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The cause of death was not determined.
Lerer remained at the University of California College of Mathematics in Santa Cruz in the late 1970s. In 2020, he moved away from his copyright, giving the general permission to use his words in any way without any fees in return.
A miracle at Harvard University (he obtained a sporting degree from the institution at the age of 18), soon turned his acute mind into old traditions and ongoing events. His songs “The Old Dope Peddler” (The Old Dope Peddler “(was appointed to a tune reminded us of” The Old Lamplighter “),” Be prepared “(where he mocked the scouts) and” the Vatican rag “, where Lehrir, a boredom, was in Romanian plots of a Roman church. (Words sample: “Get down on your knees, also with your pool. Your head bends with great respect, Genterflect, Genflect, Genterflect.”
He accompanies himself on the piano, performing songs in a colored style that reminds us of the heroes of musicians such as Gilbert, Sullivan and Stephen Sondheim, the latter life friend. Lyrrar is often similar to a contemporary such as Allen Sherman and Bustan Ferberg because of his comic countryside on culture and politics, and Randy Newman and “Al -Gharib Al” Yankovic were martyred from among others as an effect.
He mocked the forms of music that he did not like (modern folk songs, rock and rock and modern jazz), laughed at the threat of nuclear annihilation and discrimination.
But he attacked Erudite, even polite, almost no one objected.
“Tom Lehur is the most satirical song that has ever recorded,” music specialist Barry Hansen once said. Hansen participated in the production of the 2000 series of Lehler songs, “The Agates of Tom Lehr”, and Lehrer music has been offered for decades of time in its joint radio program “DR. Demeto”.
The Lehreer group was actually small, reaching about three songs.
“When I got a funny idea about a song, I wrote it,” Lehrrar told Associated Press in 2000. ” “I was not like a real writer who was sitting and putting a piece of paper in the typewriter.
Music Tom Lehrrar sits next to the piano at his home in Santa Cruz, California, on April 21, 2000.
AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File
He accidentally entered the performance when he began to compose songs in the early fifties of the last century to entertain his friends. He soon performed them in the cafe around Cambridge, while he stayed at Harvard University to teach and obtain a master’s degree in mathematics.
Its first record was cut in 1953, “Songs by Tom Lehler”, which included “I want to return to Dixie”, and it disturbs the positions of the ancient south, and “Fight Sercy, Harvard”, indicating how Harvard Blueblood may sing a football battle song.
After a period of two hours in the army, Lahor began to perform his parties in places around the world. In 1959, another LP was released called “More of Tom Lehreer” and a live registration called “An evening lost with Tom Lehler”, which was nominated for the Best Comedy Prize (Music) in 1960.
But almost at the same time, he resigned greatly from roaming and returned to teaching mathematics, although he made some writing and performance on the side.
Lirer said he was never comfortable to appear in public places.
“I enjoyed it to some extent, and he told the AP in 2000. But for me, I went out and performed the ceremony every night when everything was available like the novelist comes out and reads his novel every night.”
It produced a political spelling song every week for the 1964 TV program “which was the week” a local comic show that expected “Saturday Night Live” after a decade.
He released the songs the following year in an album entitled “It was this year.” The article included “Who is the Next?” To wonder which government that will be the next is to get the nuclear bomb … perhaps Alabama? (He did not need to tell his listeners that he was a stronghold of separation at that time.) “Pollution” is looking at the new concept that was at that time, perhaps rivers and lakes should be cleaned.
He also wrote songs to showcase educational children in the 1970s. He told AP in 2000 that the hearing of the people who benefited from them gave him much more praise for any of his satirical works.
His songs were revived in the 1980 “Tomfolery” music, and a rare public appearance appeared in London in 1998 in a celebration of honoring the music product, Cameron McCainch.
Liwar was born in 1928, in New York City, the son of a successful designer. Recrew a perfect childhood on the western side of Manhattan, which included attending Broadway offers with his family and walking at Central Park at night or night.
After skipping two degrees at school, Harvard entered the age of 15, and after obtaining a master’s degree, he spent several years to pursue a doctorate in vain.
He once said: “I spent many years to satisfy all the requirements, as much as possible for years, and I started the thesis.” “But I just wanted to be a trained student, it’s a great life. This is what I wanted to be, unfortunately, you cannot be a doctorate and a study student at the same time.”
Part -time teaching began in Santa Cruz in the 1970s, especially to escape the harsh New England winter.
From time to time, he admitted that the student will register in one of his classes based on the knowledge of his songs.
“But it is a real sporty separation,” he said at the time. “I do not do any funny theories. So these people go very quickly.”
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