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Tom Lehrer and Santa Cruz: the trail of one of America's premier satirists
For years, Lehrer spent half the year teaching math at UC Santa Cruz. At 96, he now lives in Massachusetts. Richard Stockton tracks his local legacy.
My calls to every Santa Cruz musician I knew felt like a treadmill to oblivion; they all had passionate testimonials for Tom Lehrer’s genius and influence, but led down a blind alley every time. Bratton’s ‘60s trio, The Goodtime Washboard 3, performed in San Francisco during the early ’60s at the fabled North Beach nightclub The Hungry I, which hosted among others Woody Allen, Mort Sahl and Lehrer. But in the early years he fit right in and gave students a diverse, wonderful experience, where scientists could do musical comedy, and where they could get in touch with literature and the arts and humanities.
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