He has a way of transforming programs as conservative as the one he played on Monday into essays on the evolution of Western style, with the works as supporting exhibits.
Her songs were romantic, not political, and while they drew on Western styles, they held onto both the fervor of Persian love poetry and the sliding, quivering, impassioned phrasing of traditional Persian music.
The Zimbabwean singer Netsayi and her group, Black Pressure, will open, bringing their grounding in African music to bear on a range of Western styles.
There are also touches of Western styles.
It's virtually impossible to believe that there is still only one Western-style hotel on such a magnificent stretch of white sand.
Given the fixed price and single product, dealers do not bother spending money on Western-style showrooms.
This and several other early, politically pointed responses to the war drew heavily, and possibly with irony, on Western-style Socialist Realism.
The two-hour debate, based on Western-style political debates, was polite and rarely confrontational, with a moderator asking the candidates questions.
Rather, he said, China would establish "a legal system of socialism with Chinese characteristics" by 2010, allowing the Communist Party to establish legal doctrine instead of relying on Western-style court rulings to continually shape the law.
As Russell Leigh Moses, a Beijing-based political analyst, puts it: "The argument in policy-making circles where reform is concerned is 'how much more authoritarian should we be?' not 'how do we embark on Western-style democracy?'"Tough though the recent sentences of activists have been, they are hardly out of keeping with the leadership's approach to dissent in recent years.
Many of the Czech company's 800-strong sales force, most of whom are independent agents on western-style commissions, come from Ceska (though many of Mr Münkel's star performers have been former teachers, who excel at explaining complex policies to customers).The new firms' slim bureaucracies also meant they could respond swiftly to unexpected problems.
