Name: Max Raabe & Palast Orchester
Start: 2024-03-21T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-03-21T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Carnegie Hall

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Max Raabe

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Palast Orchester

Carnegie Hall

Max Raabe & Palast Orchester

New York City

United States

Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage

Max Raabe & Palast Orchester: Concert Various

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The centerpiece of Carnegie Hall’s 2023–2024 season is a powerful exploration of one of the most complex and consequential chapters in modern human history: Germany’s Weimar Republic of 1919–1933. Even with a progressive new constitution and the adoption of democracy, Germany emerged from World War I into a period of overwhelming economic hardship, social inequality and unrest, political polarization, and extremism. These challenges paved the way for the opportunistic rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, ultimately leading to the outbreak of World War II and the horrific devastation and genocide that followed.

Yet despite the turmoil and upheaval of the Weimar period, the arts and culture flourished as artists sought bold and innovative avenues for creative expression and sociopolitical commentary. At the same time, a thriving and decadent nightlife provided desperately needed escapism from the struggles of daily life, becoming an essential part of the social fabric.

Join us on a thought-provoking journey through artistic movements in classical music, jazz, cabaret, opera, art song, and more as we investigate the forces that led to the fall of the Weimar Republic—and the many lessons about the fragility of democracy that can be gleaned from its extraordinary collapse. Experience the brilliance of the Vienna Philharmonic and The Cleveland Orchestra with Franz Welser-Möst, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra with Sir Simon Rattle, Ensemble Modern, Max Raabe & Palast Orchester, and Jason Moran, plus an immersive cabaret series that features Ute
Lemper, Meow Meow, The Hot Sardines with special guest Alan Cumming, and so much more.

Archival Footage and Photos: 
Alamy Stock Photo  
AP Images  
British Pathé   
Brooklyn Daily Eagle  
CriticalPast  
Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Foundation, Germany 
Kinolibrary  
La Camera Stylo Film Collection 
Landesarchiv Berlin  
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Wien 
Weill-Lenya Research Center, Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, New York  
The Wiener Holocaust Library Collections

Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice | Carnegie Hall

Making their highly anticipated return to Carnegie Hall, Max Raabe and his Palast Orchester big band give a mischievous, modern edge to hits by Weimar-era composers, including Weill, and American mainstays such as Berlin and Porter. Experience the razor-sharp wit and glamour of 1920s and 1930s German cabaret and swing with a cool, contemporary twis

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Max Raabe & Palast Orchester by Various, From (2024/2024), Conductor Max Raabe, Carnegie Hall, New York City, United States

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