With his slicked-back hair, arched eyebrows and string-bean frame filling out an elegant white-tie tuxedo, singer Max Raabe looks like he just stepped out of a Fred Astaire film. And when this German ...
Looking for a musical evening with a little class but no stuffy business? Maybe you like your orchestras with a side of Britney Spears? Sounds like Max Raabe’s beautifully nostalgiac vocal stylings, ...
Singer Max Raabe stands erect before the microphone, garbed in a tuxedo and tails with his blonde hair slicked back, and croons songs that were the rage of Berlin during the 1920s and ’30s, the time ...
Over the past three decades Max Raabe and Palast Orchester have become the voice of old Berlin, playing the band music of the German capital in the ’20s and early ’30s—the years of the Weimar Republic ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jane Levere is a New York-based freelance writer covering the arts. The music of decadent but elegant Weimar Germany and of the ...
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 ...
In November 2007 German singer Max Raabe performed at Carnegie Hall with the Palast Orchester, presenting a half-English, half-German program of songs from the golden years of Weimar Germany. The ...