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MONTEVERDI: VESPRO DELLA BEATA VERGINE, 1610 (Archiv Produktion). 2 CDs. The Vespers of 1610 is easily the most virtuosic, enthralling and glorious liturgical composition before Bach's Passions. John Eliot Gardiner leads a large and splendid assortment of soloists, choristers and instrumentalists in this kinetically irresistible and revelatory performance...
...most of which are now considered too frail to travel. Neither the St. Luke Altarpiece nor The Lamentation over the Dead Christ, that unsurpassably bitter and poignant image of the corpse on the stone slab, can leave the Brera in Milan, and the Louvre will never lend the Madonna della Vittoria to another museum...
...sudden death of raunchy raconteur Redd Foxx during a rehearsal for his new TV series, The Royal Family, deprived America of one of its most popular comedians -- and may have cheated CBS of a hit. Foxx's much-anticipated return to TV, opposite co-star Della Reese, was producing respectable ratings for the network in a long-lagging Wednesday-night time slot. CBS has only three more episodes featuring Foxx. While replacing him will be difficult, since the show was tailor-made for Foxx, the network hopes to keep the series alive. One possibility: a new male lead, perhaps...
...Della Reese--performs in a gala jazz extravaganza to benefit Dimock Community Health Center, Roxbury. Tickets are $100, $75 for WGBH members. For information call Steppin' Out at 442-5077. In the World Trade Center in Boston Saturday...
...lawyer (Lisa Darr) is visited by her long-lost brother (David Keith), a hillbilly layabout, and his two unwashed kids. Much to her dismay (and ours), they promptly move in. In CBS's < The Royal Family, Redd Foxx plays a sour Atlanta mailman whose sunset years with his wife (Della Reese) are interrupted by yet another band of unwanted relatives: their daughter and grandchildren from Philadelphia. It's hard to know which is more annoying -- these paper-thin pretexts for put-down jokes or the cavalier way they are tossed aside in a headlong rush for the heartstrings...