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Max Raabe & Palast Orchester

Dream a Little Dream

Symphony Hall

Tue. March 19, 8:00 PM

For the first time in Boston since 2012, Max Raabe and the Palast Orchester bring the glamour and sophistication of Weimar-era Berlin to Symphony Hall with a cool, contemporary twist. Swing and cabaret big band classics from Germany’s Roaring Twenties meet Broadway and Tin Pan Alley standards by Cole Porter and Irving Berlin in this irresistible concert.

Raabe, with his smooth high baritone and unshakeable poise, leads his endlessly versatile band through arrangements praised as “always extremely cunning and never less than very stylish” by Britain’s ArtsDesk. Get away to a lost era of music, wit, and style with Max Raabe and his Palast Orchester!

“Escapism sometimes feels not just useful but necessary. To be carried back, for an evening, to the world of the 1920s/1930s dance band, with foxtrots, pasodobles, crisp starched collars and secco endings, of slick hair and even slicker arrangements, does have a lot to recommend it. And a virtually packed house in Cadogan Hall last night were palpably more than happy to be taken there. We were in assured hands.”
The ArtsDesk

Max Raabe & Palast Orchester Media Gallery

interviews and performance footage about Max Raabe and Palast Orchester — Max Raabe & Palast Orchester: Tonight or Never

black and white footage of couples dancing and color video of a retro-style dance band playing on stage in front of a blue curtain — Max Raabe and Palast Orchester: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

a big band, a blonde white female singer with heavy bangs, and a white male singer with slicked-back gray hair and an elegant suit — Max Raabe & Palast Orchester - Guten Tag, liebes Glück, feat. LEA (MTV Unplugged)

retro-style footage of young children pantomiming grown-up activites like reading the newspaper and driving a car, while an adult man rides a bicycle down a country road — Max Raabe & Palast Orchester - Wer hat hier schlechte Laune

in the style of black and white animation from the 1930s, a frog character enters an underground jazz club where an orchestra of animals are playing — Max Raabe & Palast Orchester - Erstens küss' ich nicht

a band, holding their instruments, turn to look at us as they go up a staircase — Max Raabe (center) and the Palast Orchester

interviews and performance footage about Max Raabe and Palast Orchester — Max Raabe & Palast Orchester: Tonight or Never

black and white footage of couples dancing and color video of a retro-style dance band playing on stage in front of a blue curtain — Max Raabe and Palast Orchester: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

a big band, a blonde white female singer with heavy bangs, and a white male singer with slicked-back gray hair and an elegant suit — Max Raabe & Palast Orchester - Guten Tag, liebes Glück, feat. LEA (MTV Unplugged)

retro-style footage of young children pantomiming grown-up activites like reading the newspaper and driving a car, while an adult man rides a bicycle down a country road — Max Raabe & Palast Orchester - Wer hat hier schlechte Laune

in the style of black and white animation from the 1930s, a frog character enters an underground jazz club where an orchestra of animals are playing — Max Raabe & Palast Orchester - Erstens küss' ich nicht

a band, holding their instruments, turn to look at us as they go up a staircase — Max Raabe (center) and the Palast Orchester

From our friends at the Goethe Institute:
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