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Scientist of the Day - Tom Lehrer
Jewish Humor Central
Tom Lehrer, an American mathematician turned song-writer, was born Apr. 9, Lehrer studied mathematics at Harvard, but in the s he began performing satirical songs that he had written, accompanying himself on the piano. In , he released his first album, Songs of Tom Lehrer, which he sold from his home by mail. His tunes embraced such warm topics as dope-peddling, southern conservatism, and obsession with the dead, and consequently, his songs were seldom played on the radio. His reputation was therefore slow to spread, but spread it did, and by , when he released his second album, he was moderately well-known, at least on college campuses. His appeal to his audiences lay mostly in the cleverness of his song-writing, his deft piano playing, and his nimble tongue; his appeal to us lies in all this plus the fact that many of his subjects were scientific. His song "Elements", from his second album in , is nothing but a list of the then-known chemical elements, sung to the tune of the “Major General” song from Pirates of Penzance, but it is just brilliant. You can see him perform it on this YouTube video, a recording of a performance he gave in Copenhagen , one of the few times he was recorded
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With the recent announcement that acclaimed satirist Tom Lehrer is placing all of his lyrics and much of his music in the public domain (or at least as close to it as practical), it seemed like a good time to take a look at one of his songs: Lobachevsky
Though not Lehrer&#;s best-known song (it&#;s often mistakenly referred to as the &#;Plagiarize!&#; song) it is certainly one of his most memorable and distinct.
Filled with a variety of music changes, lines in Russian and a story of a successful academic career, Lobachevsky packs a great deal into a three-minute song.
However, what makes the song extremely interesting is that Lehrer was, first and foremost, an academic. Not only did he get his start selling copies of his record at Harvard, he ultimately left music almost entirely to teach mathematics and musical theater history at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
This raises a simple question: How well did Tom Lehrer satire the subject of plagiarism? The answer, as with most things Lehrer, is very well.
The Song
Named after the real 19th century mathematician Nikolai Lobachevsky, one of the inventors of non-Euclidean geometry, the narrator of the song attributes his personal success in the field to Lobachevsky&#;s advice.
That advice was simple: Plagiar
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Tom Lehrer Revisited
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