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John Kander, the second son of Harold and Bernice (Aaron) Kander, was born on March 18, 1927, in Kansas City, Missouri. [2] He has stated that he grew up in a loving, middle-class Jewish family and maintained a lifelong close relationship with his older brother, Edward, who became a sales manager at a brokerage house in the city. [3]
Nov 25, 2015 · John Kander, what impact did writing the songs for "Cabaret" have on you as a secular Jew - because it's - you know, it's set in Germany as the Nazis are coming to power. KANDER: I don't...
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Jun 12, 2023 · The play, named for a historically Jewish section of Vienna, begins in 1899 in the living room of an affluent and assimilated Austrian Jewish family and continues until 1955, after much of the ...
May 29, 2013. At 86, legendary Broadway composer John Kander still remembers how, as a small boy in an assimilated Jewish home in Kansas City, Mo., he first heard the searing story of the...
Mar 19, 2021 · John Kander was born in Kansas City, Missouri to a Jewish family that had been in that city for generations. As Kander describes it, “There were a couple of rabbis in the family, but we only...
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Aug 27, 2006 · The Kanders were Jewish, yet so assimilated that the first song young John wrote, in second grade, was a Christmas carol. The composer John Kander, in 1987 with his collaborator, the lyricist...
This film explores the unique role of Jewish composers and lyricists in the creation of the modern American musical. Featuring interviews and conversations with some of the greatest composers and...
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