Every so often, Okpokwasili breaks into a spasm-filled dance or a sweet melody.
"Don't be seduced by the sweet melody," he insisted, after a lovely burst of music on the Solomon Islands.
Gorgeous enlists six of her friends as accompaniment, a giggling retinue of nymphs fancifully named Sweet, Melody, Fantasy, Prof, Mac and Kung Fu.
The result is a work that maintains the group's penchant for sweet melody and upbeat refrain, but with a richer sound underneath.
Catrin Finch was the harpist in Gabriel Pierné's Concertstück for harp and orchestra, delivering a combination of sweet melody and glittering passagework with customary aplomb.
"But, reader," protests July, "if your storyteller were to tell of life with July through those times, you would hear no sweet melody but forbidding discord.
Some nights I would wake to a sweet melody grindinglike an ice-cream summons and stumble, half-awake, trying to answer the phone in a forest.
After pouring a bowl for me, he cupped the gourd in his hands and for several minutes whistled a sweet melody into it — the high key of a tin whistle or courting bird, seducing the plant spirits to aid me.
