A rare promotional program for Alix Young Maruchess — billed as the finest living exponent of the viola d'amore in the world — captures one of the most singular solo concert artists of interwar New York, photographed holding her seven-stringed Amati instrument with composed, patrician authority. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Maruchess trained under violin masters Sevcik, Press, and Auer before renouncing the violin entirely to devote herself to the neglected beauty of the viola d'amore, an instrument whose silvery sympathetic strings had lain largely dormant since the 18th century. This folding program flyer — handwritten additions noting a performance at the Penny Watrous Gallery, Saturday April 6 at 8:30, tickets $1.00, $.70, $.50 plus tax — is a window into the intimate, salon-style concert culture of Depression-era and early WWII New York, with press reviews from the New York Times, Herald-Tribune, World-Telegram, and papers across San Antonio, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Richmond, and Savannah. Her address is listed as 157 East 74th Street, New York.