John Kander
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Born in Kansas City to a middle-class Jewish family, he studied music at Oberlin College before completing a master’s degree at Columbia University, where mentors such as Douglas Moore, Jack Beeson and Otto Luening shaped his compositional voice. After early work as a rehearsal pianist for West Side Story and arranging dance numbers for Gypsy and Irma la Douce, he met lyricist Fred Ebb in 1962; th…
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