Max Raabe & Palast Orchester Wednesday, April 18, 2018 at 8:00pm This is the 821st concert in Koerner Hall Max Raabe, vocals Mona Seebohm, violin Thomas Huder, trumpet & vocals Michael Enders, trumpet, vocals & Musical Director Jörn Ranke, trombone, viola & vocals Bernd Frank, tenor saxophone & clarinet Johannes Ernst, alto saxophone & clarinet Sven Bährens, alto saxophone & clarinet Rainer Fox, baritone saxophone, clarinet & vocals Fabio Duwentester, drums & percussion Bernd Hugo Dieterich, bass & sousaphone Ulrich Hoffmeier, guitar, banjo & violin Ian Wekwerth, piano Max Raabe & Palast Orchester The Palast Orchester was founded in 1986 in Berlin by Max Raabe and fellow music students with the intention of playing music from the period of Germany’s Golden 1920s. Their style and show immediately struck a chord with the public so that touring quickly increased, first in Germany, then also to Austria and Switzerland. An ECHO award for their CD Charming Weill and two internationally successful albums on which they interpreted modern pop songs in the style of the 1920s, finally set them off on their international career. Max Raabe & Palast Orchester tour regularly to the USA and Canada, where they perform in famous venues like Chicago Symphony Hall, Davies Hall in San Francisco, and New York’s Carnegie Hall. Over the years, concert tours have also taken them to China, Japan, Italy, Russia, Hungary, Poland, Holland, France, England, and, most recently, to Scandinavia and the Baltics. In 2010, a successful tour to Israel attracted great attention and German television filmed a documentary, which opened the Jewish Film Festival Berlin-Potsdam and was shown at the Film Festival Jerusalem. Releases on DVD include concert recordings from Berlin’s open air venue Waldbühne, Festspielhaus Baden Baden, and Admiralspalast Berlin, an original theater from the 1920s, where they filmed Heute Nacht oder nie (Tonight or Never) and Eine Nacht in Berlin (A Night In Berlin). Since 2011, Max Raabe has teamed up with various renowned German “pop-specialists” to write three highly praised albums which have earned him a reputation of finding unusual touching topics: Küssen kann man nicht alleine (One Cannot Kiss Alone), Für Frauen ist das kein Problem (For Women it’s no Problem) and Der perfekte Moment … wird heut verpennt (Today I´ll Sleep Through the Perfect Moment), all released by Universal/Deutsche Grammophon. Max Raabe & Palast Orchester made their Royal Conservatory and Canadian debut on March 9, 2010, during Koerner Hall's inaugural season, and tonight marks their fourth return to Koerner Hall. .