Funeral services took place here today for Isadore Freed, a composer and teacher in the field of Jewish sacred music, who died here Saturday at the age of 60. Born in Russia, he came to this country at the age of 3. He was a founding faculty member of the School of Sacred Music of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.
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