These followed Raabe’s 1992 breakthrough hit, “Kein Schwein Ruft Mich An” (which translates, literally, as “No Swine Ever Calls Me”). He and his 12-piece Palast Orchester (Palace Orchestra) also ...
When Max Raabe with an incredibly straight face, ironically raised, eyebrow and slightly bent elbow enters the stage almost carelessly, he sends a sardonic look to the audience and with the greatest ...
A few months ago, asked to name my musical guilty pleasures on a New York radio show, I cited a track by the Comedian Harmonists, the phenomenally successful 1930s-era German vocal sextet. I'm no ...
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The Foxtrots and Tuxedos of the 1920s and '30s: Berlin's Max Raabe and the Palast Orchester Take America by Storm With faultlessly fitting tuxedo, hair slicked back, and a cheeky look, Max Raabe sings ...
Created in the late 1980’s by German musician Max Raabe and some of his fellow musical students who wanted to perform music of the period, Max Raabe & the Palast Orchester was born. To this day you ...
The other German kids were listening to Elton John, Kraftwerk, and Jethro Tull, but Max Raabe pulled out an old 78 from his father's collection and fell in love. The classically trained tenor now ...
From the time he was 11, Max Raabe was hooked. The haunting and whimsical songs of 1920s and '30s Berlin kept him mesmerized via shellac records and movies, including American films translated into ...
2 Photos: Paul Giamatti, Tatiana Maslany and More in RHINOCEROS Rehearsals at A.R.T. Dream a little dream with Max Raabe & Palast Orchester as they bring the sophistication and glamour of Weimar-era ...
We were in assured hands. Although this is the very first UK tour by the 12-piece, Berlin-based Palast Orchester, the band led by Max Raabe has existed since the singer started it in1986, and it has ...
Slick and nostalgic, yet unmistakably modern, Max Raabe & Palast Orchester returns to Texas Performing Arts with a new program. The ever-elegant, debonair Raabe and his 12-piece orchestra will embody ...