The Auyrn Quartet performance, postponed from Saturday, Jan. 30, will take place today, Sunday, Jan. 31, at 3 p.m. in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College, 75 Russell St.

Tickets for Saturday’s postponed show will be honored today, Jan. 31.

Tickets are also available at www.batestickets.com, and 100 free tickets for ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ students will be available with I.D. today.

The concert is presented by the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Concerts Committee.

Recently celebrating 28 years of continuous membership, this quartet based in Cologne, Germany, reflects a “European tradition that blends elegance of sound with seamless phrasing and clarity of detail,” in the words of a writer for Cleveland’s Plain Dealer.

Having presented the complete cycle of Beethoven string quartets in Germany, Italy and Washington, D.C., the quartet continues a three-year Beethoven cycle for ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, offering two concerts per season.

Describing the quartet’s recording of the complete Beethoven quartets, “Auryn’s Beethoven,” an eight-CD set released by Tacet in 2005, a reviewer for Gramophone wrote: “There is no shortage of great and famous Beethoven cycles, but there are no performances such as these. For me, this is now the set to beat.”

The ensemble has developed into one of the most important quartets of its generation, touring extensively and performing regularly in the major concert halls of Europe, The Middle East, The Americas, Australia and Asia, including London’s Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, the Wiener Konzerthaus in Austria, and New York’s Frick Collection and Weill Recital Hall. Auryn’s Beethoven programs provide selections from each of the composer’s periods within each concert.

The Auryn Quartet series coincides with a season-long effort by renowned pianist and ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ artist in residence Frank Glazer, who resumed his performances of the complete Beethoven sonata cycle at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ on Jan. 17, with subsequent performances on Feb. 7, Mar. 19, and Apr. 9.

A visit to the local Jewish cemetery taught Timothy McCall ’08 of Lawrenceville, N.J., a timeless lesson in history.

After spending the summer researching the livelihoods of Jewish merchants who arrived in Lewiston-Auburn in the 1870s, first from Germany and then from Eastern Europe, McCall decided to “fully connect with the community” by visiting the graves of individuals whose names he recognized from weeks of primary-source research.

McCall, a double major in History and German, had been comparing the history of the Jewish community to the larger economic story of the twin cities of the Androscoggin. “The Jews were very much dependent on the mills for their livelihood and the solvency of their businesses,” McCall writes. As the area’s once thriving textile and shoe mills disappeared, so too did the Jewish community shrink. “For the Jewish merchants, the closures meant their loyal customers were without jobs and without disposable income.” Read more here.

“This talk will be of interest given the economic and political reconfiguration of Europe. A united Europe may well be the only real political power that could challenge the present U.S. imperium,” says Craig Decker, professor of German at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½. “It’s not easy for the Europeans to integrate, but as they do, they can pose some real challenges to U.S. policy.”

Since joining the German Foreign Service in 1975, Schnelle has served his government with assignments in Madrid, New York, Oslo, Bonn and Berlin. He assumed his current Boston-based post in September 2002. A graduate of the Free University of Berlin, he studied at the London School of Economics and Stanford University, where he received a master’s degree in history. Schnelle has lectured at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, and the Polytechnic of Central London.

Schnelle’s ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ visit is part of a three-part speaking engagement in Maine hosted by the World Affairs Council of Maine. The German consul general to New England discusses German American Trade and Investment Relations: Common Interests and Concerns at 12:45 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 14, the University of Maine, Orono, in Buchanan Alumni House. He gives a third talk titled Germany and the United States: A Troubled Partnership at 8 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 15, at the Portland Country Club, Falmouth. For more information, call the World Affairs Council of Maine at 207-780-5383.

A German major, Cavender received the award for her proposal to research representations of the tension between the individual artist and society in 20th-century German literature. The award covers her travel costs and provides a monthly stipend from September 2002 to the following June. During that time Cavender will help teach English in a public school and pursue her research.

“I was ecstatic” upon hearing of the award, says Cavender. She got the good news on the eve of spring break, and “it was a great way to end the semester.”

The U.S. government created the Fulbright Program right after World War II to foster international understanding through educational and cultural exchange. One of a variety of Fulbright programs, the U.S. Student Program awards some 900 grants each year and operates in more than 140 countries.

Such an award is “an entrance into the academic world,” says Gerda Neu-Sokol, a lecturer in German at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ and Cavender’s adviser. “It’s a prestigious stipend that gets you on your way to a graduate career. It helps you tremendously.”

Cavender is one of 80 national recipients of a “Pädagogischer Austauschdienst” grant, which supports teaching assistantships in Germany. She will combine part-time work helping an English teacher in a public school with her own study and research.

“I want to use the opportunity to narrow my focus in terms of what I want to study in grad school,” says Cavender, who is considering a teaching career.

Cavender began her German studies at James Bowie High School. She has twice taken part in study programs in Munich, during high school and for her junior year at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½. Although the Fulbright Commission in Germany hasn’t yet notified her of her destination, she has a particular interest in working in Germany’s capital, Berlin.

“There are so many possibilities there,” she says. “There’s so much going on.”

Cavender’s honors thesis at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, which she wrote in German, analyzes how the female narrator’s voice evolved in the fiction of Christa Wolf, one of the few authors from the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany) to win international regard.

Cavender, says her adviser, “is a very good writer and a terrific reader” in German. “It is a wonderful achievement, in the course of four years, to learn another language and tradition so well that you can write an honors thesis in it,” Neu-Sokol says.

Although the thesis project was immensely important to her written command of the language, says Cavender, the immersion in everyday German culture that the Fulbright award makes possible will be key to making her an even more effective speaker of the language.

Cavender praises the German program at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ for its academic rigor and for its size. “You have this intimate class atmosphere,” she says. “You really get to know your classmates and professors.”

Gatehouse graduated cum laude from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College on May 26 with a bachelor of arts degree in history and a secondary concentration in German. He was a dean’s list student and a member of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ water polo team. In 1994, he spent a semester studying in Berlin with the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Berlin Program. In 1996, he spent a semester studying in Regensburg, Germany, with a Wesleyan University program. A graduate of Middletown High School, he is the son of Robert and Susan Gatehouse, 3 Red Orange Road.

Gatehouse is one of approximately 1,600 U.S. grantees who will travel abroad for the 1997-98 ac ear under the Fulbright program. Established under Congressional legislation introduced by former Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the program is designed to increase mutual understanding between citizens of the United States and other countries.

Under the Fulbright program, some 4,000 grants are awarded each year to American students, teachers and scholars to study, teach and conduct research around the world. Individuals are selected on the basis of academic and professional qualifications, as well as their ability and willingness to share ideas and experiences with people of diverse cultures.

Located midway between the coast and mountains in south-central Maine, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ is a 142-year old undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences and is rated among the top 25 national liberal arts colleges by U.S. News & World Report. ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ offers majors in 23 academic departments and six interdisciplinary programs and encourages independent study, research with faculty members and participation in off-campus programs. ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ does not require standardized-test results for admission.