Dashing, dapper, and debonair, Max Raabe might have walked straight out of the Golden Age of Berlin in the 1920s. With his elegant poise, suave sophistication, and silky-smooth baritone, he brings to life the songs and style of a bygone age. Born into a family of farmers just as the Beatles were serving their apprenticeship in the bars and clubs of Hamburg, Raabe’s childhood musical tastes were formed by his discovery of a weekly program of 1920s music on German radio. His passion was further roused by a record he found in his parents’ cupboard, a humorous instrumental called “I’m Crazy About Hilda.” Before long, he was collecting 78s in flea markets and junk shops, and by age 16 was an expert on the songs and styles of the Weimar era. Raabe’s deadpan humor and charmingly meticulous re-creations of the standards as they used to be sung — in formal evening wear with an orchestra — is guaranteed to take the audience away from their everyday problems and into another world. The time has never been better to discover — or rediscover — timeless tunes by legends like Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, and Fred Astaire.
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