Lunch is included, and reservations are necessary. For information, call the center at 432-6460. Several Yale-affiliated performers have joined with two professional New Haven area classical ensembles to create the Elm City Vocal Chamber Quartet, a new performance group. The Elm City Vocal Chamber Quartet will hold its debut concert at 8 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 6, at the Church of the Redeemer, corner of Whitney Avenue and Cold Spring Street. The concert will include works by Monteverdi, Brahms, Massenet, Mozart, Rossini and others.
Admission is free.
For information or to reserve a copy of the book, call 787-2848. William C. Brainard, the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics, has been appointed as chair of the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, one of 12 regional banks created in 1913 to coordinate and regulate federal banking policy. Professor Brainard, who currently chairs Yale's economic department, will head the nine- member board during a time when the Federal Reserve System's autonomy is being questioned by some members of Congress. A former Yale Provost, Professor Brainard is a coeditor of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, a scholarly journal that closely follows issues of macroeconomic management. Ms. Horwitz, who is also a lecturer in the Yale Child Study Center and psychology department, was one of two individuals honored this year for their work with and for young children and their families.