Tom Lehrer, acclaimed musical satirist of cold war era, dies aged 97 | Music
In a statement on Sunday, the US media said that the famous humorist and pianist Tom Lehrer, who made him one of the favorite apocalyptic prophets of America before he was withdrawn to the academy, died. He was 97 years old.
According to the New York Times, the singer-verse writer died on Saturday at his home in Massachusetts, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Lehrer’s sardonic numbers were supported by a dazzling heroism that reflects his love for fascinating viewers and magical viewers in the piano, 1950s and 60s.
However, Lehrer was always much more than the sum of its parts. A child graduated from Harvard at the age of 19 and later taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He left a trail with Lehrer, biting humor and zany rhymes far beyond the time he spent on issues such as pollution and nuclear proliferation.
It was also funny in random issues such as murder, marriage mismatch, chemistry and discontent for pigeons.
To poison the pigeons in the park, one of the signature melodies, enjoy a spring entertainment of the massacre with the pigeons Striknin – “Just gets a Smidgen!”
The Folksong Army, another song, mocked the 1960s protesters.
However, activism, who is about who is about nuclear weapons and with songs such as pollution and “the latest toothpaste, then you can rinse your mouth with industrial waste,” he warned.
Lehrer caught the audience from 1953 to 1965, but in 1972 he returned to take the stage for a child -made television show The Elecric Company in 1972.
Rumor has it that Lehrer stopped composing when his prophecies began to take place, or he gave up protesting Henry Kissinger’s giving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973.
However, in an interview with the Split News Website The onions in 2000, Lehrer gave up the second rumor by saying that he left long ago ”.
He said there was nothing sudden about it. “I wrote 37 songs in 20 years and this is not a full -time job. I wrote something from time to time and I didn’t always and then. The second is more than the first number.”
He claimed that he went from puberty to old age and tried to skip maturity ”.
Although most of the compositions of Lehrer were original, it stood out for a genius of adaptation: 118 All of the chemical elements from Gilbert and Sullivan operetta to a modern general melody from Penzance Pirates.
The track fascinated anything other than Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe.
“I think Tom Lehrer, the smartest and most funny man of the 20th century, and he is a kind of hero, Rad Radcliffe said before he said a comment of elements in an English comedy show in 2010.
This performance was partially responsible for Radcliffe’s music comedian Garip Al Yankovic, who gave the role of Radcliffe’s role in Yankovic’s satirical biopsis.
“Singing this song is extremely asocial,” Yankovic said Radcliffe’s comment. “Nerdy. And I said, ‘Okay, this man takes him. This man is a relative spirit. He can embody me on the screen.’
Submission to Instagram on SundayYangovic wrote: “The last living musical hero is still my hero, but unfortunately he doesn’t live anymore. Great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.”
Born in a secular Jewish family on April 9, 1928, Lehrer grew up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Three years later, Magna Cum Laude graduated and three years later, Magna Cum Laude graduated, attending prestigious Horace Mann and Loomis Chaffee preparatory schools.
MIT, Harvard, Wellesley College and California University, Santa Cruz continued to teach mathematics.
