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| Bernadette Mauban / Vocals
and Violin |
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| Bernadette
Mauban was born and raised in Chicago and has been playing
violin since she was four years old. She is a soprano in the
Westwood Hills Congregational Church choir. She performs violin
& back up vocals for Singer/Songwriters Bird York, James
Wilke, Ezina Moore, and for a local acoustic band The Daisy
Cutters. She received a Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance
from Northwestern University and performed with the Chicago
Symphony Chorus from 1996-2002. Bernadette also has a day job,
she works at Sony Pictures Television in the music group. |
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| How
is Nashuva different from other religious services you’ve
experienced? |
There’s a lot
more music. It’s more meditative. More laid back. Less
ritualistic.
It’s fun and a completely new experience to be working
with Naomi. I’m amazed at what she does. The fact that
she’s a woman makes it that much better. I keep learning
from her sermons. I’m definitely enriched and get a different
perspective and I can take messages from her sermons and apply
them to difficult issues in my life. |
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| What
is it like to be in the Nashuva Band? |
| It’s fun. I love
the group, the people in the band. Everyone is very talented
and flexible. I love the music too. The music is new for me
in style. It’s a really great learning experience. |
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| What
is it like to be part of the service? |
| It feels good. You
know you’re making everyone happy. Everyone is having
a really good experience. We are motivating people to break
out of their shells through the music that we do.
The prayers Naomi has written are very universal and they
can be applied to anyone who believes in a higher power. I
really enjoy the prayer. Especially the meditation. It feels
like there is more we have in common than we think. I’m
Christian and after every Nashuva service I can walk away
from a Jewish prayer experience feeling spiritually fulfilled.
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| What
is the Connection between your prayer and your music? |
| The best way for me
to pray is through music. Music is a language that’s personal,
universal and unique. |
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| How
would you describe the Nashuva band? |
| It’s a Jewish
worship band. We pray through our songs. |
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| The
service? |
| It’s musical.
Very meditative. Musically driven. My violin adds emotion to
the music and gives it one more emotional dimension—it
adds the part where it makes you cry. It’s a sound that
just plucks at your heart strings. |
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