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"This is something that serves as an
example for all of us, the sacrifice we
can make for our Judaism."
The musician who traded a 16-
year orchestral career for a deeper
spiritual commitment has moved
beyond her Chabad community in
Toledo to express her passion for
Judaic music at synagogues in Ann
Arbor, Oak Park and now West
Bloomfield. She also is considering an
appearance in Florida.
Schoenfield was introduced to the
violin at age 9 through a program in
the Ferndale Public Schools. She soon
began private lessons with masters
like Emily Adams Austin of the
Detroit Symphony, Ivan Galamian of
the Juilliard string department and
Mischa Mischakoff, concertmaster of
Toscannini's NBC Symphony,
Chicago Symphony and Detroit
Symphony. Summers throughout her
teenage years were spent in intensive
study at the Meadowmount School of
Music in New York's Adirondack
Mountains.
By the age of 19, Schoenfield was
playing as a first violinist and concert
soloist with the Rochester
Philharmonic Orchestra in New York,
where she made her home with an
Orthodox family living nearby.
"The warmth of their lifestyle and
their belief system really had a pro-
found effect on me," she recalled.
But the musician spent years
exploring the world around her before
she took the final step in conforming
to the Lubavitch way of life.
A trip to Toledo to hear a friend's
original composition uprooted
Schoenfield from New York, eventual-
ly leading to marriage and the birth of
her daughter, Gretchen. The young
wife and mother maintained her level
of expertise for the Toledo Symphony
Orchestra by practicing up to seven
hours a day.
"I loved playing after so much work
as a child to establish a rapport with
the audience," she said. "But it was so
one-sided. I was a wife and a mother. I
guess you can say I wanted to be more
normal.
"I still love classical music," she
added. "But this [Judaism] is also very
special to me and very dear to my
heart." ❑

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