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First pic is my favorite

A woman who spent forty years teaching other people how to play thought her retirement concert was over, and then the orchestra she had built started playing a song she had not rehearsed. The My Way tribute to Nam Yun Kim (2014), staged at her retirement concert in Seoul by her former students and led by pianist Daejin Kim, is one of the most moving pieces of footage in classical music, a teacher discovering the size of her own legacy in real time. The mood is a lifetime of discipline dissolving into tears in front of everyone. Kim was the godmother of the Korean violin world, a Juilliard student of Ivan Galamian and Felix Galimir who won the Tibor Varga competition in 1974, played Carnegie Hall and the Sydney Opera House, and then came home to teach, first at Kyung Hee and Seoul National, and from 1993 at the Korea National University of Arts, where the studio on the hill produced Clara-Jumi Kang, Zia Hyunsu Shin, Ji Young Lim, Inmo Yang, and a generation of competition winners who reshaped what the world expected from Korean strings. So when the encore began and the students she had drilled, corrected, and championed turned toward her with the Sinatra anthem about a life lived on one's own terms, the composure that carried her through decades of juries and masterclasses simply collapsed, and the hall watched a strict teacher receive the only review that ever mattered. She kept teaching after the concert, reportedly arriving by wheelchair to tutor students while battling cancer, and when she died on March 12, 2023, at 74, this footage was what her students shared. This is musical storytelling about the people behind the soloists, gratitude played back to the person who taught it. What makes it a must-see is who is holding the instruments. Every player in that orchestra learned their sound from the woman crying in the front row, and the song is their way of proving she did her job. Save this post for your most moving tributes collection, and share it with the teacher who changed how you saw yourself.