Matthew Sollars

Virtuoso violinist Aaron Rosand has sold his 1741 Guarneri for about $10 million, one of the highest prices ever paid for a violin.

The Obama Administration wants to force executives at companies that got the biggest bailouts to take steep paycuts, according to a report from The Associated Press.

The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (NJSO) has selected a young French Canadian conductor to take the baton.

Federal authorities arrested a man living in suburban Boston on terrorism charges on Wednesday.

Abdullah Abdullah, the former foreign minister of Afghanistan and President Hamid Karzai's chief political rival, says he is busily preparing for a runoff election slated for Nov. 7.

The Catholic Church is making a bid to lure conservative Anglicans who are disillusioned by the ordination of women and election of openly gay bishops in their church. 

Only in Manhattan's opera world can Amato be reborn as Amore.

Cecilia Bartoli, the world-famous Italian mezzo-soprano, is set to release a major project that explores the Baroque world of the castrati.

It was another bad day at the paper of record on Monday.

The Pakistan military continued its offensive against Al-Qaeda and the Taliban in the region of South Waziristan on Sunday. Pakistan is trying to wrest control of the region, which is near the Afghanistan border, from the militant groups.

A U.N. panels says roughly one third of the votes won by Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai in the disputed August election should be thrown out.

During the 1960's and 1970's, Vietnam endured the screech of U.S. warplanes making bombing runs from above. But on Friday, Americans brought far sweeter sounds to the country's capital of Hanoi.

Health officials warned today of a shortfall in swine flu vaccine supplies that could last through at least the end of November.

Governor Paterson has proposed nearly $2 billion in cuts to state agencies and more than a billion dollars to health and education over the next two years to reduce New York's deepening deficits.

New York State Senator Hiram Monserrate of Queens was found guilty of a reckless misdemeanor assault charge for forcefully dragging his girlfriend, Karla Giraldo, through the lobby of his apartment building on the way to the hospital.

Militants launched coordinated attacks on police installations in Lahore, Pakistan's second-largest city, and exploded car bombs in two other cities near the Afghanistan border on Thursday.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown pledged Wednesday to send 500 more troops to Afghanistan, but only if NATO allies and the Afghan government do more to help fight the Taliban.

Soprano Karita Mattila will not sing in the title role of Puccini's Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera this evening.

A 1909 copy of Mahler's First Symphony, with mark ups in the composer's own hand, is among the millions of documents that the New York Philharmonic will preserve online.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is back above 10,000 for the first time in a year.