In 1969, the Bethel and Dehn companies were chosen by the United States State Department to perform in nine African countries as cultural emissaries.

B9 Obituaries D14 Edouard Morot-Sir, ex-French diplomat and cultural emissary.

Rather than dropping bombs on the Arabs, we should bombard them with cultural emissaries who could help them understand that we hold our freedoms dearer than McDonald's, Disney and Coca-Cola.

Beyond that, Woods's projects function as cultural emissaries.

During the inaugural ceremonies of President Miguel de la Madrid in 1980, George Crum served as cultural emissary to Mexico.

And sending La Scala, one of the world's premier opera companies, retained a certain logic: the company, based in Milan, has become, in a way, a cultural emissary to American historical celebrations.

Country music has long served as one of America's cultural emissaries, carrying the nation's rural myths around the globe.

But by pushing through the particulars of his story-songs to their core of common feeling, this cultural emissary renewed an international bond.

Anxious cultural emissaries was more like it, and high on our list of goals - along with seeing the Hagia Sophia - was not being mistaken for ugly Americans.

The State Department said in a statement that "as a pianist, composer, cultural emissary and educator, Dave Brubeck's life's work exemplifies the best of America's cultural diplomacy."