The first duty of a conductor is to imagine a world without noise

Knowing Rage Against the Machine are political doesn’t overcome my determination to enjoy them anyway

To get a handle on African cinema, watch Mandabi

Croatia’s war runs like a dark thread through the excellent series ‘The Paper’

It’s BBC actors and comedy stars who’ve made the corporation great over the years — not two-a-penny journalists

Robert Thicknesse on the woes of modern, British opera

In today’s pop world trauma is an asset

Out with the old, in with the new: Michael Prodger on art collection trends

Christopher Silvester on films of faith and the canonisation of three children’s divine visions

Zemlinsky’s music is arresting and his ideas fertile and diverse, but he often goes unnoticed