"There's a time in life for Hoagy Carmichael. There's a time in life for Claude Debussy. There's a time in life for Jerry Lee Lewis. There's a time in life for Destiny's Child. All these things have their moment." ~Elvis Costello
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SETLIST:
Introduction
National Brotherhood Week
When You’re Old And Grey
The MLF Lullaby
Poisoning Pigeons In The Park
So long, Mom!
Pollution
The Masochism Tango
Send The Marines
Who’s Next
Wernher Von Braun
The Vatican Rag
We Will All Go Together When We Go
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When you’re a mathematician by trade and you moonlight as one of the cleverest songwriters around, you’re uniquely qualified to perform something like Tom Lehrer’s “New Math” which, by our calculations, is enjoyable and confounding in equal parts.
15 Apr 2017 Leave a comment
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Performed by Ben Miller. Lyric from Randall Munroe’s comic xkcd.
Original melody from Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Major General’s Song”, also parodied by Tom Lehrer’s “The Elements”.
10 Mar 2017 Leave a comment
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Tom Lehrer, the wickedly smart (multiple math degrees from Harvard, teaching gigs at his alma mater as well as MIT and others) shows that his musical and lyrical talents are equally keen in this satirical ditty.
Considering his musical career was a secondary avocation, his abilities are astounding. He could devastatingly satirize with a lyric, and his command of key modulation was astonishing. Both traits are on display in “We Will All Go Together When We Go”.
If you think Weird Al is good, Lehrer will blow your mind.
See also: https://edcyphers.com/2012/03/14/tom-lehrer-the-elements/
See also: https://edcyphers.com/2013/04/14/tom-lehrer-teaches-the-new-math/
