A Berliner, however, in white tie and tails. Champagne in hand. A study in elegance, charisma and silkily ironic wit. A Jazz Age Berliner, that is, from the Weimar era. Wait, sorry. I got a little ...
Faultlessly fitting tuxedo hair slicked back a cheeky look and Max Raabe sings the best of the 20s and early 30s with amusing nostalgia The ironic lyrics suit the times today as much they did eighty ...
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 ...
The celebratory atmosphere or Stimmung of Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s-a heady mixture of decadence, anxiety, and ambiguity-remains a high point in the history of culture. Made popular with American ...
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 ...
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 ...
When musician and acclaimed baritone Max Raabe arrived in Berlin in the mid-'80s, he was expecting to find the cabarets and variety theaters his grandmother told him about, but they were long gone. So ...
This program is part of our TV Membership Campaign. Support quality programming you depend on from KPBS. Give now! Enjoy high style and humor with the German crooner’s salute to the timeless melodies ...
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 ...
3 Jessica Vosk & Kelli Barrett Will Lead BEACHES on Broadway Founded in 1986 by the charismatic baritone Max Raabe, the Palast Orchester embodies the high style and musical glory of the 1920's and ...
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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 ...