They have recorded more than 80 CDs, including nearly the entire Latin American repertoire for string quartet. Winners of two Latin Grammys for Best Classical Recordings, they have also been awarded with the prestigious Diapason D’Or, have been recognized with the Mexican Music Critics Association Award, and have received three “Most Adventurous Programming” Awards from Chamber Music America/ASCAP.Ĭuarteto Latinoamericano’s members are three Bitran brothers: violinists Saul and Aron and cellist Alvaro, with violist Javier Montiel. They have premiered over a hundred works written for them, and they continue to introduce new and neglected composers to the genre. Founded in Mexico in 1982, the Cuarteto has toured extensively throughout Europe, North and South America, Israel, China, Japan and New Zealand. Concessions served including snacks, refreshments, beer, wine and spiritsĬuarteto Latinoamericano is one of the world’s most renowned string quartets and, for over thirty-five years, the leading proponent of Latin American music for the genre.Admission is FREE, but you will need a ticket to enter.She lives together with her husband in Palos Verdes, Californina and travels internationally sharing her remarkable story. In 2002, Marthe penned her memoir “Behind Enemy Line: The True Story of a French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany”. At its heart, this remarkable story is the tale of an ordinary woman who, under extraordinary circumstances, became the hero her country needed her to be. When, at age 80, Cohn was awarded France’s highest military honor, the Medaille Miliataire, not even her children knew to what extent this modest woman faced death to defeat the Nazi Empire. She traveled the countryside and approached troops sympathetic to her ‘plight’, obtaining critical information for the Allied commanders. She joined the intelligence service of the First French Army and posed as a German nurse desperately trying to obtain word of a fictional fiancé. As the Nazi occupation escalated, Marthe’s sister was sent to Auschwitz while her family fled to the south of France. Born in Metz, France in 1920, Marthe was a devoutly religious Jewish woman living just across the German border when Hitler rose to power.