THE PIANO MAN'S DAUGHTER

At the turn of the century, an independent young Canadian bears the love child of an itinerant piano demonstrator. After the piano man dies, she marries his social-climbing brother, telling him, only after the nuptials, that the child is a pyromaniac. Thus begins a multigenerational saga of crisis after crisis. Classically trained Colm Feore reads in a tone halfway between that of a funeral oration and a soap-opera announcer. Within the confines of that unctuousness, he is expressive enough and even musical in his timing. Y.R. (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine [Published: APR/MAY 02]