Alix Young Maruchess

Maruchess was based in New York City by 1917,^[5] and gave recitals at Steinway Hall in 1927,^[6] 1928,^[7] 1929,^[8] and 1939.^[9] and at Town Hall in 1931.^[10] She toured widely in the 1930s,^[11] including performances in Carmel in 1934^[12] and 1935,^[13] at the Textile Museum in Washington, D.C., in 1936,^[14] and at Bennington College in 1937.^[15] She returned to Carmel in 1947^[2] and 1953, to play at the Carmel Bach Festival.^[16][17]

From the 1930s onward,^[18][19] Maruchess was frequently in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she socialized with Witter Bynner, Gerald Cassidy, Ina Sizer Cassidy, Amelia Elizabeth White, violinist Eunice Hauskins, and others in the arts.^[20][21] While in Santa Fe, she began playing the cello in concerts.^[21] She was founding conductor of Sinfonietta, the city's amateur chamber music group,^[22] and returned to Santa Fe in 1953 to perform with Sinfonietta.^[23]

William Zorach drew a portrait of Maruchess with her viola.^[24] In the 1940s she played a kithara with the experimental Harry Partch Ensemble.^[25][26] In 1962, she performed with the Brooklyn String Orchestra in Chappaqua, with Lily Nyeboe conducting.^[1]

Alix Young married labor arbitrator Boris Maruchess; they had a daughter, Graeme, born in 1914.^[27] Her husband died in 1938.^[28] Maruchess died in 1963, at the age of 83, in Harrison, New York.^[19][29]