Prominent leaders of Jewish cultural life in New York today attended funeral services here for Leo Low, famous Jewish composer and conductor, who died last week at the age of 82.
Mr. Low, who was born in Russia, showed musical talent at a very early age, directing the choir in the Great Synagogue at Vilna at the age of 15. A graduate of the Musical Observatory at Warsaw, he devoted much of his talent to Jewish folk music and to Hebrew liturgy, but wrote also operettas and composed and arranged music for large choral groups. He settled in this country in 1920.
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