Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

Dearly Departed

It opens with a séance, which segues into a funeral scene. Soon enough, Hahn-Bin is returning from the dead in a fog-filled room, resplendent in theatrical makeup and his signature sculpted black mohawk. To say the South Korean-born violin virtuoso — protégé of Juilliard’s Itzhak Perlman — has a flair for the dramatic is putting it mildly. This staged resurrection, part of his avant-pop opus Till Dawn Sunday, takes listeners from Young Frankenstein’s Transylvanian Lullaby to Saint-Saëns’ Danse Macabre to Harold Arlen’s Somewhere Over the Rainbow. Guess the guy wasn’t kidding when he described himself as the “Viagra to classical music.”