Hi, I'm Dr. Kim.
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And welcome to Live to be Well.
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I'm so excited to
have a very special guest,
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but not just a
guest, my violin teacher.
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Welcome Mrs. Candace Walls.
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How are you
today? Just wonderful.
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I'm so glad to be here, Dr. Kim.
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Well, listen, I
want to thank you.
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Well, let's talk about how long
you've been playing the violin.
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I've been playing the
violin for over 50 years.
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Really?
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How did you get started playing?
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My best friend started playing
the violin in her school.
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And I wanted to do
everything that Cheryl did.
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And so I asked my parents,
"Can I play the violin?"
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And they say, "Yes."
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What grade was this?
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Third grade. Third grade.
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Third grade.
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And you really took to it, you,
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you know, was able
to adapt to everything.
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Was the learning
process difficult for you?
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Yes, it's always hard
issue, you know, Dr. Kim,
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to start learning
to play the violin.
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Yes.
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Actually my friend Cheryl
dropped out and I continued.
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No way.
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Because there was
just something about it
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that grabbed me.
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Yes, yes.
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And I wanted to
play. So I continued.
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Now you are
Seventh-day Adventist.
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You have served as minister
of music at your church.
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Your husband is
also amazing musician
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'cause he happens
to be my organ teacher.
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Yes, he is. My
daughter's piano teacher.
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What and how do you balance
your music and your marriage
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because you're both maestros?
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Well, I think that both of
us are musicians help a lot.
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Because musicians
understand one another
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when you have to
get away to practice.
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When you have to
go to rehearsals.
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And we do a lot
of music together.
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Yes, you do. So that's a joy.
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We spend a lot of
time together doing music
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and that actually
strengthens our relationship.
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I remember my first recital
just before Arthur passed away,
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he was too sick to
come to the last one
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when I had the organ recital.
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But he was just amazed
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how much Aaron and I learned
in that short period of time
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and how you have guided us.
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Why do you sacrifice so much,
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because we're talking about
total sacrifice music therapy.
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Why do you do this?
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Actually, it started
out as therapy for me.
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I worked very hard.
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I had a job with
heavy responsibilities.
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And music was an escape.
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And since I was
a church coworker
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and love the Lord.
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And my husband was doing
music ministry in the church.
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He encouraged me to
start playing with him
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and for church.
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And I really wasn't ready
to do that but he pushed me,
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he was almost like a Svengali.
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And I started playing with him.
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When he was asked
to play, he would say,
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"Come and play
a violin with me."
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Or "Come and play
the flute with me."
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You play the flute also? Yes.
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And I also... What do you play?
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What other
instruments do you play?
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Violin, viola, flute
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and English handbell.
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Oh, my goodness.
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I love playing
English handbells,
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that's most therapeutic for me.
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Is that different to English
handbells and chimes or...
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It's a little different.
What's that difference?
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The chimes are the
precursor to the handbells.
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The handbells
actually look like gold bells.
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And a lot of people
have seen bell choirs before,
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and we're blessed to
have one at our church.
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And one at our schools. Yes.
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And that's therapy for me.
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I understand how music
is therapeutic for others
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because it's always
been therapeutic for me.
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As we're gonna ever suggested
that you learn piano organ.
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Actually, I
played piano. Do you?
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I've played for
years. I didn't know that.
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I played piano
before I played violin.
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And became very
professional at it.
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Really?
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But why do I need to play piano
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when I have Amos Walls.
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Now this is the truth
'cause he is the best.
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I don't need to play.
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I remember when I
called him and said,
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"Is it any way possible
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that you could take my
daughter and I on as students?"
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Even Arthur
wanted to take lessons.
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And when he said
yes, I was so excited
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because he is just a
genius and so understanding.
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I remember I wanted to
back out of my organ recital.
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Oh, no you're gonna
do this and it's like,
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how do you manage the keys,
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the pedals, hitting chords
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and, you know, and you
won't allow me to look at music.
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I mean, you won't allow
me look at the instrument,
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you used to look at the music.
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Why is that?
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That is so that your body
can be trained to coordinate
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between your eye what
you sing on the music,
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and your two hands
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as you're doing two
different things as you play.
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If you look at the instrument,
you lose focus on the music,
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and also you become too
focused on what you're doing
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and that can throw you off.
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I want you to feel the music.
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Feel the music. Feel
the body move from it.
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Do it by touch and feel
and ear and not by sight.
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It's kind of like faith.
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That is my faith 'cause...
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We play by faith
but not by sight.
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But the violin
is so intimidating
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because all that beautiful music
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can come out of
those four strings.
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You know, piano has all the keys
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and the organs and
the pedals has all of that
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but the violin has four strings.
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And it was amazing when
I learned my first, my G,
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and then I
learned my D and my F.
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And my, no, not my F but my
A, I don't like that A and E
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'cause it's over
there and over the sharp
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and you got to hit
it and it will squeak
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but you're always
stays in the positioning.
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I think that many times
I've been at home by myself
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and I would go
and get my violin,
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I didn't know where
I was going to play.
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Sometimes I just held it
and cried because it helped me.
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It is healing,
all music is healing.
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That's right.
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And it gave me a sense of peace,
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it gave me a sense of warmth.
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And I love being
able to go from the violin
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to the piano to the organ, okay.
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I'm like, you know, I mean,
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and I may not be
able to play a few songs
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because I read
music, I can't do by ear.
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How do you...
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How does one
learn to play by ear,
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'cause Aaron plays by ear?
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Sometimes it's a talent,
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sometimes you
have to work at it.
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Now I have to work at it
because I'm a music reader.
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And so I have to
work at playing by ear
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not because I can't do it
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but because I
depend on music so much.
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And it's good
for us as musicians
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to stretch in that direction.
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But, you know, Dr. Kim,
when you're sad that you,
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sometimes just held your
violin and it's comforting.
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I love music
because I know its origin.
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God created music.
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God created it.
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He created it for us. Yes.
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And he created it as a vehicle
by which we could praise Him
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and give Him pleasure.
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Yes. Oh, yes.
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And once I learned that,
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music became just
totally different for me.
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When you're young
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and you're
learning music, it's...
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I want to play
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because I want to
impress my mother and father.
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I want to play
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because I want to play
well for all those people
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that are out
there listening to me.
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I want them to say that
I'm good and I did well.
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When I first
learned music it was for me,
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there was no spiritual
meaning whatsoever in music.
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But as I grew and
the Lord showed me,
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I created music.
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It's a vehicle
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by which you
praise and worship Me.
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It's a
relationship we'll have...
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Yes, it's a
relationship. Together.
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And that's why I teach.
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And you give so much
and you don't charge,
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you don't charge us.
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And I was just blown away
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when I pulled out my checkbook
and I said, "How much?"
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And you said, "Nothing."
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And I said, "Excuse me."
I said, "It's Aaron and I."
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You said, "Nothing."
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And I was just,
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until this day
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you have never
charged me for a lesson,
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that's total
sacrifice for the Lord.
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Such a giving heart.
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And then I remember
the text I get, you said,
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"We will hold your space
as long as you need us to."
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I looked at that text
and I literally just cried
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because I wanted to
come back to my music
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but I wasn't
ready, I couldn't focus.
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And I even
pulled out my clarinet,
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my mother got it for
me in the sixth grade.
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And I was playing my clarinet
and I said, oh, my goodness,
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I was doing the hymns
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and I was, I
couldn't do this again
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'cause I didn't
want to do anything
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that I did prior
to, out of the past,
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and I didn't
want to do anything,
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associate anything with it.
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And music, he would be upstairs,
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"Okay, that's enough squeaking.
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How many times you're going
to play that song on the organ?
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How many times
you're going to hit that?
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That didn't sound
right. It's out of tune."
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So I would walk past all
the instruments, the organ,
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my clarinet, piano, violin,
I walked past them for a year
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from when he got sick
in April of 2016 till,
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you know, just
recently calling you,
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I just walked past
it, I couldn't do it,
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I wouldn't even look at
my instruments in the house.
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And my panels in my living room,
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I would deliberately
look the other ways,
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I wouldn't have
to look at the piano
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because he would go
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and tinker on
the piano on Sabbath
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or during the day,
he would sit there.
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So I truly
appreciate you, number one,
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your love for God,
your love for your...
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helping others, your
gift and your talent.
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And you're so good.
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I know last week in
lesson, I was really intimidated
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because you made
me, you stopped playing.
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And you said, "Let me
hear you do this, you know."
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And you watched me to make
sure I was looking at the music.
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And I surprised myself.
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And you had me
do it over and over.
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But when Aaron came
down and Aaron could play
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and you said,
"Faster, faster, faster,"
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I was like I'm
going to get there
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because I'm gonna stay with it.
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You are.
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I'm going to be committed
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and, you know, I've changed
all my appointments around
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to make sure it didn't
interfere my lessons now.
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And I want you to
know I'm committed to that.
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Let's talk about
your favorite hymn.
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What's your favorite hymn?
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Oh, I have so many.
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There's a hymn "God
Will Take Care of You."
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And I heard that hymn in
church when I was a little girl.
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Probably, seven
or eight years old
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and that hymn stuck
with me all my life,
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"Be not
dismayed whate'er betide,
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God will take care of you.
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Beneath His wings of love abide,
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God will take care of you."
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And right up there,
there is amazing grace.
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How sweet the sound
that saved a wretch like me.
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I once was lost,
but now I'm found.
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Was blind, but now I see.
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That is so the condition
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of all of us
before we find Lord.
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Would you mind playing
"Amazing Grace" for us?
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I would really appreciate
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and I know our
viewers would just love it.
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Candace Walls
playing "Amazing Grace."
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Oh, my goodness.
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Oh, my goodness. Just bravo.
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Dr. Kim, you're
getting there. Oh, my goodness.
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I was so impressed
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when you played
with us for a recital
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and the organ
piece was beautiful.
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God gave you many talents
and music is one of them.
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You and Aaron
and I'm so thankful,
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you are pursuing it.
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Yes, yes.
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And then it's not for the world,
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it's not for any... It's for me.
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You know, when I
go home people say,
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"Well, what's your
therapy? Who do you talk to?"
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And I will, I talk to my violin,
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I talk to my clarinet, I
talk to my organ, the piano.
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And it was something
when I was at the, doing...
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I was the only organ student.
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And I was like, "Wow!
Is there anyone else?"
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And your
husband, "No, just you."
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And I had to
play some other songs
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with the keyboard students,
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but when I walked in,
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the Oakwood
Seventh-day Adventist church,
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there was now three registers,
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it wasn't too like it is.
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You know, at my
home and at your home,
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there were three.
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And I looked at
your husband like,
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"What am I
supposed to do with this?"
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And he said,
"Just play the first two
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and if you get a little
happy, go to those chords."
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And so my feet were here
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and I'm playing the
C chord and I'm playing
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and there's like the
Holy Spirit took over.
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And I was on
that third register.
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And I was like,
it's just beautiful
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and I didn't know
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all the people had
come into the sanctuary
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'cause we were in the
vestibule with the orchestra.
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And when I finished playing,
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that was my first time
playing in public with an organ.
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And I've played
with Aaron before
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on the piano at Churchwood
and Arthur would sing.
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But at a recital I
never made it to a recital.
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Are you ever too
old? Is it ever too late?
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Never.
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Dr. Kim, I remember
you playing that organ
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and it was so
beautiful, as were the strings.
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And one of the reasons I
teach and I teach for nothing
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is because there are
so many people out there
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that are giving.
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All of my adult students,
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you included have
done wonderful things.
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One is a social
worker, she gives so much,
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one is a nurse,
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one works
tirelessly in the church.
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And so all the Lord is doing
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is using me to give back to you.
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And when I was coming
up and learning music,
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I had wonderful teachers.
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They poured so much into me,
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they took me to practice,
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gave me my lessons, and
made sure I was exposed.
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And all I'm doing is
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paying it
forward with the adults
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and the young
people that I teach.
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Paying it forward, I love that.
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And even the young
people that I teach.
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Do you know that
three of them right now
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are on a
missionary trip to Panama?
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What?
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Giving back. Giving back.
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Even my smallest
students are givers.
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They are so
cute, the little one.
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My six year old
beginner is a little girl
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who has three little brothers.
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And I see her helping her mother
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with those brothers of
hers, they're so precocious.
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And she is just so helpful.
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Yes, yes.
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But I give
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because it seems like,
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the Lord sends
people to me who are givers,
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and He wants to give them back.
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And I was given so much
coming up as a musician.
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You know, with my teachers,
00:17:54.14\00:17:55.47
they were so wonderful and kind.
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And I learned
from them to give back.
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And I'm thankful
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that I had a wonderful career
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and the Lord takes
care of me financially
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that I don't need to
charge, I don't want to charge.
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And you don't.
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Again, you know, and
you're so compassionate,
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I see your tears,
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you know, I wanted
to get you some tissue,
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you know, 'cause...
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I'm sorry, I'm
very emotional person.
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No. You're just
you... You know...
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But you love what you
do and you're so giving,
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you're so
inspiring, you're so...
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I remember the recital
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and I was on the back
row with the advanced violin
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and I'm like, "Sister Walls,
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I think you get
me in the wrong seat.
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Can I go up there
with the first graders
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or the second graders?"
00:18:41.32\00:18:42.65
You said, "No, you
are in the right seat."
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And you really pushed me,
even with "Joyful, joyful"
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I was like, "I can't
do this." "Yes, you can."
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And the first year you said,
"Dr. Kim, you're not ready."
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And I was like, okay.
00:18:54.36\00:18:56.87
But the second year,
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we practice and practice,
and lessons and lessons.
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And you came to, Aaron and
I we had to audition for you,
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and you said, we were ready.
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And we took our place
with the advanced students
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and we played "Joyful, joyful."
00:19:10.91\00:19:12.78
And again just amazed,
00:19:12.81\00:19:14.98
I was so happy,
I was so excited.
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And even when
Arthur was becoming ill,
00:19:17.32\00:19:20.86
I said, "Would
you want me to play?"
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And he said, "Play for me."
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And sometimes I
would hit a wrong note
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and he would just smile
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and he would, I would
walk him into the living room
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and I would play the
piano and he loved the organ.
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And when he became ill, I
left the organ in the room.
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And I've brought his
hospital bed in there.
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And Willie Scott
came over and played,
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Rodney King, I played.
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And we did, I would
just play for him, to him.
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Just say, "Honey,
what do you want to hear?"
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And he said, "My favorite hymn,
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'Tis so Sweet
to Trust in Jesus."
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And I mean, it
took everything I had
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not to break down and cry
00:20:00.30\00:20:02.26
and to play those hymns for him.
00:20:02.30\00:20:04.57
And he would, he would tease me,
00:20:04.60\00:20:05.93
he says, "Oh, you're
getting better and better."
00:20:05.97\00:20:08.64
And I said, "I'll try."
00:20:08.67\00:20:10.07
And he said, "No,
you are really playing,"
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'cause you know when we met
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I knew like three hymns
and I play them everyday.
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And he said, "Do we
have any other hymns?"
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And I just didn't push
myself to learn any other hymns.
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I just was lazy
or I got comfortable.
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Someone told me, you know,
being comfortable is easier
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than being...
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Oh, no, being uncomfortable,
I'm going to be comfortable.
00:20:32.33\00:20:35.30
So forget it, I'll
just stay uncomfortable,
00:20:35.33\00:20:37.67
I'm not gonna do this.
00:20:37.70\00:20:39.03
But I need to be uncomfortable,
00:20:39.07\00:20:41.07
I need to say, I
need more from myself
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so that I just don't
accept being comfortable.
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I want more from me.
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I want to talk
about your children,
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they all play also.
00:20:52.71\00:20:54.78
You taught your
children to play?
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Yes.
00:20:56.28\00:20:57.62
And these are
sons and daughters,
00:20:57.65\00:20:58.99
you have two sons,
one plays the what?
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One plays the
violin, one plays viola.
00:21:01.56\00:21:05.96
And my daughter played
the piano for many years.
00:21:05.99\00:21:09.56
And as she grew up
because they're older,
00:21:09.60\00:21:12.17
she stopped playing
00:21:12.20\00:21:13.54
but I have hope
that she will return.
00:21:13.57\00:21:17.47
And when he serves
as a police officer,
00:21:17.51\00:21:19.97
he plays viola.
00:21:20.01\00:21:21.91
He plays violin. Violin.
00:21:21.94\00:21:23.91
This is his
instrument I have today.
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Really? Yes.
00:21:25.55\00:21:26.92
That is amazing.
00:21:26.95\00:21:28.58
I know you are
just proud of them.
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People... What do
people need to know?
00:21:32.89\00:21:34.79
What are the myths
about, you know, music
00:21:34.82\00:21:37.89
and the therapy of music?
00:21:37.93\00:21:40.10
What are some of the myths?
00:21:40.13\00:21:42.40
Well, one of the
biggest myths I see
00:21:42.43\00:21:49.00
are adults,
00:21:49.04\00:21:50.37
they don't think
they can learn to play.
00:21:50.41\00:21:52.71
Can I get a witness?
00:21:52.74\00:21:54.08
Every time I do a
concert, and do a performance,
00:21:54.11\00:21:57.61
People come to me and say,
00:21:57.65\00:21:59.45
I always wanted to
play that instrument.
00:21:59.48\00:22:02.18
And I even have people
that say, when I was 40 or 45,
00:22:02.22\00:22:06.76
I went to a music store
00:22:06.79\00:22:08.12
and I wanted to learn
how to play the violin
00:22:08.16\00:22:09.76
and they told me I was too old.
00:22:09.79\00:22:13.29
And I said, "I don't
think you're ever too old."
00:22:13.33\00:22:17.33
Ever.
00:22:17.37\00:22:18.93
"If you want to
play an instrument,
00:22:18.97\00:22:21.74
try it,
00:22:21.77\00:22:23.10
there are ways you can try it."
00:22:23.14\00:22:24.51
Yes. I said, "I'll teach you."
00:22:24.54\00:22:26.37
Yes.
00:22:26.41\00:22:27.81
That's one of the myths.
00:22:27.84\00:22:30.38
The second myth is that
00:22:30.41\00:22:36.25
unless you are virtual
soul at your instrument,
00:22:36.28\00:22:41.72
there is no place for you.
00:22:41.76\00:22:45.56
I dispel that myth.
00:22:45.59\00:22:47.00
Yes, yes.
00:22:47.03\00:22:48.76
Because we can play together
00:22:48.80\00:22:54.14
in a group
00:22:54.17\00:22:55.90
and sound beautifully. Oh, yeah.
00:22:55.94\00:22:58.24
All of my students
are in at the same level.
00:22:58.27\00:23:01.08
Right, that's right.
00:23:01.11\00:23:02.48
But there is 22 of us,
00:23:02.51\00:23:05.45
and so we sound
beautiful when we play together,
00:23:05.48\00:23:08.95
even if...
00:23:08.98\00:23:10.32
and I hate to his terminology,
00:23:10.35\00:23:12.99
the worst player is
making a few mistakes.
00:23:13.02\00:23:16.79
Yes, yes, yes.
00:23:16.83\00:23:18.16
But I want all my
students to give glory to God
00:23:18.19\00:23:20.86
and performance
00:23:20.90\00:23:23.03
so that they can understand
00:23:23.06\00:23:25.83
why they've been given
that desire and that gift
00:23:25.87\00:23:30.01
is to bless the Lord.
00:23:30.04\00:23:31.37
We play for an
audience of one. Yes.
00:23:31.41\00:23:34.24
But thankfully, that blessing
radiates out to everyone
00:23:34.28\00:23:38.85
who is in that congregation
or in that concert hall.
00:23:38.88\00:23:44.82
We can do all
things through Christ
00:23:44.85\00:23:47.62
who strengthens us.
00:23:47.66\00:23:49.92
Look at the comfort you
are to Arthur with your music.
00:23:49.96\00:23:54.93
I have a friend who
is a music practitioner.
00:23:54.96\00:24:00.20
That's a little
different from music therapy,
00:24:00.24\00:24:03.07
she's a flute player.
00:24:03.10\00:24:04.44
She and I were duet partners.
00:24:04.47\00:24:06.78
We did many concerts together.
00:24:06.81\00:24:08.64
Really?
00:24:08.68\00:24:10.01
And what she does is
00:24:10.05\00:24:13.25
she goes into hospital rooms
00:24:13.28\00:24:15.65
and plays for
those who are in pain.
00:24:15.68\00:24:18.05
My goodness.
00:24:18.09\00:24:20.19
If they want her to. Yes.
00:24:20.22\00:24:24.03
And it just helps so much.
00:24:24.06\00:24:30.13
It helps the
people who are in pain.
00:24:30.17\00:24:32.67
Music does soothe
the savage breast.
00:24:32.70\00:24:35.27
Oh, yes. Yes, it does.
00:24:35.30\00:24:36.84
And it soothes you
when you are in pain.
00:24:36.87\00:24:39.14
When you're down,
whether you're playing it
00:24:39.17\00:24:42.08
or whether you're hearing it,
00:24:42.11\00:24:44.01
so wonderful gift from God.
00:24:44.05\00:24:45.68
You know, we are taught
00:24:45.71\00:24:49.52
that music is
such an intricate part
00:24:49.55\00:24:53.96
of the worship service.
00:24:53.99\00:24:55.92
And, you know, there's
different genres of music,
00:24:55.96\00:24:58.39
we have gospel,
we have the hymns,
00:24:58.43\00:25:02.26
we have the anthems,
we have different choirs,
00:25:02.30\00:25:05.67
children's choir,
adult choir, youth choir
00:25:05.70\00:25:07.94
so that we can meet
the needs of everyone,
00:25:07.97\00:25:09.30
even the senior choir.
00:25:09.34\00:25:11.67
But I believe
00:25:11.71\00:25:13.48
that it's going to be so
much music in the kingdom.
00:25:13.51\00:25:16.18
Yes, it does.
00:25:16.21\00:25:17.55
And, you know,
00:25:17.58\00:25:18.91
do you think we're
going to have instruments?
00:25:18.95\00:25:20.28
I mean, I'm never read
that we're gonna have...
00:25:20.32\00:25:21.65
Absolutely. Absolutely.
00:25:21.68\00:25:23.82
If Psalms 150 says,
00:25:23.85\00:25:26.92
"Praise the Lord
with the trumpet,
00:25:26.96\00:25:30.39
praise Him with
stringed instruments,
00:25:30.43\00:25:32.49
praise Him with loud cymbals.
00:25:32.53\00:25:35.13
Let everything that has
breath, praise the Lord."
00:25:35.16\00:25:38.73
Why wouldn't
there be instruments
00:25:38.77\00:25:40.50
in the Kingdom of
Heaven, in God's presence.
00:25:40.54\00:25:44.57
I'm hoping that we will all
be in that heavenly orchestra.
00:25:44.61\00:25:47.84
Yes, yes. I just
see myself. Praise God.
00:25:47.88\00:25:50.41
I can do every note, every note.
00:25:50.45\00:25:52.15
Every note. No wrong notes.
00:25:52.18\00:25:54.32
Yes.
00:25:54.35\00:25:55.68
No nerves, just
playing and praising.
00:25:55.72\00:25:59.89
And I think that God is
just giving us a taste...
00:25:59.92\00:26:03.22
Yes.
00:26:03.26\00:26:04.59
Of what is to
come... That's interesting.
00:26:04.63\00:26:06.33
What is to come, definitely.
00:26:06.36\00:26:08.10
In his kingdom.
00:26:08.13\00:26:09.46
And I hope to be
playing all my instruments
00:26:09.50\00:26:12.43
to be directing
one of the choirs too.
00:26:12.47\00:26:14.90
All right, all
right. To the glory of God.
00:26:14.94\00:26:17.81
Yes.
00:26:17.84\00:26:19.17
I don't care if I'm way
back in the back section,
00:26:19.21\00:26:22.78
role whatever, seek whatever.
00:26:22.81\00:26:25.55
When I was in academy,
00:26:25.58\00:26:27.32
I was the third
section of clarinet.
00:26:27.35\00:26:30.95
But my senior
challenged the first clarinet,
00:26:30.99\00:26:33.86
and I became first clarinet.
00:26:33.89\00:26:36.12
And it took me about two
months to learn that piece
00:26:36.16\00:26:39.66
but I was determined to do it.
00:26:39.69\00:26:41.60
And my mother was so proud
00:26:41.63\00:26:43.16
when she came to
Adelphian Academy,
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a Seventh-day Adventist school
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and at there I was
sitting in that first chair,
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not just the first
section but first clarinet.
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And it just took
me to the next level.
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But my mother and
father went through a divorce
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and my mother
got my sister flute,
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my brother has saxophone,
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my other brother a
keyboard and me a clarinet,
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that's how we
began our music therapy
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coping with the divorce.
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We used our music to escape.
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And my mother would
have us come in together
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and singing in the choir,
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but it was such an impact.
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So that's why I really started
when I was just 12 years old
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playing the clarinet
in junior high school.
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I cannot thank you
enough for coming on...
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Closing words, what
do you say to someone,
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go out there and do
it, go out there and do it,
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learn how to play.
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What would you say to someone?
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I would say, learn how
to play, it is therapy.
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If there's something in you
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that's urging you
to play an instrument,
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do it
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because if it's in you,
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the Lord will
bring it out of you
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and He will channel it
where He needs you to take it.
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Yes, I like that.
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Did you hear
what Mrs. Walls said?
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He will channel it to
where He wants it to go.
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I want to thank you
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for being with us
on Live to be Well.
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And I will see you next
week for my music lesson.
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And continue to know
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that God has a
blessing and a place for you.
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I'm Dr. Kim, Live to be Well.
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God bless.
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