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John Harold Kander (born March 18, 1927) is the American composer of a number of musicals as part of the songwriting team of Kander and Ebb. He wrote the music for the stage musical ''Cabaret'', for which he won the Tony Award as Composer and Lyricist. He and Ebb received the Kennedy Center Honors award for Lifetime Achievement in 1998. ==Life and career== Kander was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and attended the Pembroke Country-Day School and Oberlin College before earning a master's degree at Columbia University where he was a protégé of Douglas Moore and studied composition with Jack Beeson and Otto Luening. His studies were interrupted at Oberlin when he served in the Cadet corps of the United States Merchant Marines. Kander began his Broadway career as substitute rehearsal pianist for ''West Side Story''. The stage manager for ''West Side Story'' then asked Kander to play the auditions for her next show, ''Gypsy''. During the auditions, Kander met the choreographer, Jerome Robbins, who suggested that Kander compose the dance music for the show in 1959. After that experience, he wrote dance arrangements for ''Irma la Douce'' in 1960. His first produced musical was ''A Family Affair'', written with James and William Goldman. He met lyricist Fred Ebb in 1962 and began a songwriting collaboration that would last for more than four decades. Later that year rising star Barbra Streisand recorded two of the duo's songs, "My Coloring Book" and "I Don't Care Much." In 1965, Kander and Ebb landed their first show on Broadway, ''Flora the Red Menace'', produced by Hal Prince, directed by George Abbott, and with book by George Abbott and Robert Russell, in which Liza Minnelli made her initial Broadway appearance. Kander and Ebb have since been associated with writing material for both Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera, and have produced ''special material'' for their appearances live and on television. The musicals ''Cabaret'' and ''Chicago'' have been made into films; the film version of ''Chicago'' won the 2002 Academy Award for Best Picture. Kander, along with Ebb, also wrote songs for Thornton Wilder's ''The Skin of Our Teeth'', and it was set to premiere in London, but the rights were pulled by Wilder's nephew. He also says that Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones, the writers of The Fantasticks, wrote a musical of Wilder's ''Our Town'' and it took them thirteen years to write, only to have the rights pulled as well by the nephew.〔Cerasaro, Pat.("InDepth InterView: John Kander" ) broadwayworld.com, November 2, 2010〕 His first musical without Fred Ebb in many years, ''The Landing'', with book and lyrics by Greg Pierce, premiered at the Vineyard Theatre, kicking off their 2013–2014 season Kander's newest musical, ''Kid Victory'', also with Greg Pierce, had its world premiere February 28, 2015 at the Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Kander」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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