Harry Wolf, 81, director for 67 years of the Waterloo German Band, which plays German waltzes, polkas and fox trots. The five-member band has played across the United States and in other countries.

In the 1997 book Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now, Paul discussed the evolution of “We Can Work It Out.” “I wrote it as a more up-tempo thing, country and western,” he said. “Then it was George ...

So asks Franz Liebkind, the goose-stepping playwright in Mel Brooks’s “The Producers.” As even I could tell you in my pidgin German, this translates to “Have you heard the German band?” Well, meine ...