This musical Ivy Leaguer made a song out of a scientific building block.
by Rich Watson
Last July, Tom Lehrer died at the age of 97. For much of his life, he was a teacher, of math and musical theater, but people knew him best for his satirical music, often about current events but mainly about things one first learns in the classroom.
Who would imagine, for example, that someone, anyone, would take the periodic table of elements and put it to the music from a world-renowned opera?
