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...fatal flowers had been addressed to "Brandis," the online name used by Marlene Stumpf in a monthlong E-mail correspondence with "TheKing610." Last Tuesday, "TheKing610" revealed himself to be Howard Eskin, 45, an abrasive Philadelphia TV and radio sportscaster nicknamed Pain in the Airwaves. "All I was trying to do was brighten her day," he told his radio audience. "I sensed loneliness. I sensed despair." Her E-mail messages, he said, were "somewhat provocative" but "not X-rated stuff...
District Attorney Michael Marino says Eskin is "just a little piece of the cog," that the victim was having online conversations with six or seven other men. Marino has yet to disclose a message she sent Eskin on the day she died. Says Eskin: "I'm not the reason this happened. I message about 1,000 people and send out about 50 to 75 gifts a year." He is now responding to messages of support at his Website, Brutally Speaking. Marino doesn't blame the Internet: "What if we found love letters? It would be the same thing." After...
SCOTT JOPLIN, JAMES SCOTT AND JOSEPH Lamb may have been the Big Three composers of the ragtime era, but there were a host of others, many of them (yes!) women. Twelve are represented on FLUFFY RUFFLE GIRLS, an irresistible CD by pianist Virginia Eskin (Northeastern). May Aufderheide, probably the best known of the dozen, showed with infectious rags like The Thriller! that she could crack knuckles with the big boys. Also noteworthy are two elegiac rags by the contemporary composer Judith Lang Zaimont, which prove there's life in the old genre yet. Eskin captures all the insouciant charm...
...worthy black composers. The felicitously named SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR (1875-1912), an Anglo-African, was equally at home in the Dvorak-tinged idiom of his Clarinet Quintet and the simple strains of Negro spirituals, which he set compellingly for piano. The album boasts fine performances, especially by pianist Virginia Eskin. WILLIAM GRANT STILL (1895-1978) was similarly eclectic. A staff arranger for the Paul Whiteman band, he could pen a delicate gem like the Seven Traceries suite or a robust concert piece like Africa, originally for orchestra. Pianist Denver Oldham gets them just right...
Arnold Steinhardt, violin, and Virginia Eskin, piano: Harvard's Gardner Museum...