Mr. Calzado's band sounded a bit less than supercharged, as if it were having a bad night, but the music itself spoke about cultural cross-fertilization.

That's why cultural cross-fertilization is so important.

In many ways this is a specialized exhibition that provides a glimpse of an unusually rich and prolonged process of cultural cross-fertilization.

This is real cultural cross-fertilization.

A vehicle for accelerating cultural cross-fertilization, it is also a laboratory for preservation.

As David Wright aptly observes in the program notes, the work's sinuous orientalisms afforded early audiences "an encounter with the unknown," as Mr. Miki's cultural cross-fertilization does now.

And his knack for cultural cross-fertilization is winning him champions among American and European critics.

You'd say there's no cultural cross-fertilization.

Rather than retreat into localism, it validates global solidarity, cultural cross-fertilization and economic interdependence.

With the martial arts paradigm Bruce Lee as the point of departure, most of the art sets out to examine cultural cross-fertilization and issues of identity.