Berlin's famed crooner Max Raabe and his 12-piece Palast Orchester will bring their collection of meticulously recreated songs from the Weimar era of 1920s Germany as well as the Great American Songbook to six Us cities beginning March 2, 2014 in Fairfax, Va and continuing to Carnegie Hall; Princeton, NJ; Kennett Square, Pa; Atlanta, Ga and finishing in Miami, Fl on March 9, 2014. The tour will support their upcoming release on Deutsche Grammophon, Golden Age, which draws from the era between the two world wars and features timeless classics like Singing in the Rain, Dream a Little Dream and Cheek to Cheek as well as tongue-in-cheek interpretations of pop favorites Sex Bomb and Oops...I Did it Again. For...
- 12/2/2013
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
Do you know what today is? It's the first day of Shark Week! A whole week full of seal chomping, chum spewing, great white leaping action over on the Discovery channel and I, for one, could not be happier. Shark Week always arrives just at that point in the summer when you're seriously considering giving up on TV. "All the shows I like I can watch on the internet or get on DVDs through Netflix" you think "what's the point of keeping up with cable?" Well, Shark Week is the point of keeping up with cable and for the rest of this week, Shark Week can be your reason for everything. When your alarm goes off you're not getting up just for work, you're getting up for Shark Week! When you're debating whether or not to make a nice dinner for yourself but you're not sure if it's worth the bother,...
- 8/1/2010
- by Intern Rusty
I was lucky enough to be backstage at Carnegie Hall with my dear friend Jeremy Geffen, who is Director of Artistic Planning for this most esteemed concert venue, last night when Max Raabe made his way to his dressing room after his utterly successful show there with his Palast Orchestra. As he stepped off the elevator that takes performers from the main stage to the Green Room area, the German baritone hugged everyone standing in the hallway - some people he knew, and others he didn't. "That was really fun!" he said with a smile. It was an obvious and touching display of emotion that contrasted rather brilliantly with the super-cool, highly stylized persona he inhabits on stage. I told him that no man living in New York City could have confidence wearing formal wear after seeing...
- 3/5/2010
- by Albert Imperato
- Huffington Post
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