Gypsy Music Will Feature Funeral Rites
Pittsburg - (AP) - The Sobbing notes of fifty Gypsy violins and the flashing color of Gypsy costumes will accompany Andrew Margitza to his grave Thursday.
Margitza, a king of the Gypsy violinists, wanted in death the music he so loved in life.
As he lay dying Sunday, the 60-year-old violinist told his son, William:
"Assemble the old musicians, the young musicians and the very young and have them play for me--in the grand manner--when they lower me down."
He asked his son to have his host of friends and relatives to don the garb of their forefathers and form a parade to St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church and thence to the cemetery.
There, on the bleak hills of the Braddock Catholic Cemetery, the casket will be opened. and the old musicians, the young and the very young will sound the haunting unwritten strains of the Gypsy dirge, "I Am Leaving You Forever."
Margitza, who came here from Austria-Hungary, played in orchestras in Omaha, Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit. He passed his love of music to his six children, William, Julius, Louis, Alex, Mildred and Martha.
Julius plays in a Detroit orchestra and Louis plalys in Chicago.
He wanted his grandchildren to know the magic of music too.
"Teach them to sing and dance and play," he begged. "There is no other way to live."
Pittsburg - (AP) - The Sobbing notes of fifty Gypsy violins and the flashing color of Gypsy costumes will accompany Andrew Margitza to his grave Thursday.
Margitza, a king of the Gypsy violinists, wanted in death the music he so loved in life.
As he lay dying Sunday, the 60-year-old violinist told his son, William:
"Assemble the old musicians, the young musicians and the very young and have them play for me--in the grand manner--when they lower me down."
He asked his son to have his host of friends and relatives to don the garb of their forefathers and form a parade to St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church and thence to the cemetery.
There, on the bleak hills of the Braddock Catholic Cemetery, the casket will be opened. and the old musicians, the young and the very young will sound the haunting unwritten strains of the Gypsy dirge, "I Am Leaving You Forever."
Margitza, who came here from Austria-Hungary, played in orchestras in Omaha, Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit. He passed his love of music to his six children, William, Julius, Louis, Alex, Mildred and Martha.
Julius plays in a Detroit orchestra and Louis plalys in Chicago.
He wanted his grandchildren to know the magic of music too.
"Teach them to sing and dance and play," he begged. "There is no other way to live."
Gypsy Music Will Feature Funeral Rites
Pittsburg - (AP) - The Sobbing notes of fifty Gypsy violins and the flashing color of Gypsy costumes will accompany Andrew Margitza to his grave Thursday.
Margitza, a king of the Gypsy violinists, wanted in death the music he so loved in life.
As he lay dying Sunday, the 60-year-old violinist told his son, William:
"Assemble the old musicians, the young musicians and the very young and have them play for me--in the grand manner--when they lower me down."
He asked his son to have his host of friends and relatives to don the garb of their forefathers and form a parade to St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church and thence to the cemetery.
There, on the bleak hills of the Braddock Catholic Cemetery, the casket will be opened. and the old musicians, the young and the very young will sound the haunting unwritten strains of the Gypsy dirge, "I Am Leaving You Forever."
Margitza, who came here from Austria-Hungary, played in orchestras in Omaha, Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit. He passed his love of music to his six children, William, Julius, Louis, Alex, Mildred and Martha.
Julius plays in a Detroit orchestra and Louis plalys in Chicago.
He wanted his grandchildren to know the magic of music too.
"Teach them to sing and dance and play," he begged. "There is no other way to live."
Pittsburg - (AP) - The Sobbing notes of fifty Gypsy violins and the flashing color of Gypsy costumes will accompany Andrew Margitza to his grave Thursday.
Margitza, a king of the Gypsy violinists, wanted in death the music he so loved in life.
As he lay dying Sunday, the 60-year-old violinist told his son, William:
"Assemble the old musicians, the young musicians and the very young and have them play for me--in the grand manner--when they lower me down."
He asked his son to have his host of friends and relatives to don the garb of their forefathers and form a parade to St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church and thence to the cemetery.
There, on the bleak hills of the Braddock Catholic Cemetery, the casket will be opened. and the old musicians, the young and the very young will sound the haunting unwritten strains of the Gypsy dirge, "I Am Leaving You Forever."
Margitza, who came here from Austria-Hungary, played in orchestras in Omaha, Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit. He passed his love of music to his six children, William, Julius, Louis, Alex, Mildred and Martha.
Julius plays in a Detroit orchestra and Louis plalys in Chicago.
He wanted his grandchildren to know the magic of music too.
"Teach them to sing and dance and play," he begged. "There is no other way to live."
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