Allegheny RiverStone Center for the Arts The musical candles of ARCA’s 20th Birthday concert burned brightly for the full Lincoln Hall house that gave a standing ovation to mezzo soprano Kathy Soroka, pianist Nathan Carterette, violinist Maureen Conlon Gutierrez and tenor Robert Frankenberry for their eclectic gala program on Sunday, October 12, 2025 – twenty years after the first concert was … Read more
What a golden afternoon and magical evening on Saturday, October 4, 2025 at RiverStone Estate for ARCA’s thank you reception for its major donors on the actual weekend of the first concert in Lincoln Hall 20 years ago. It was a joyous celebration as ARCA’s funders and long-time friends were sumptuously hosted by Saji and … Read more
In its 20 years, Allegheny RiverStone Center for the Arts has celebrated the artistry of pianists – who were a favorite of founder and President Arthur Steffee, whose one-year anniversary of his passing will be remembered this weekend. He himself studied in his youth both the violin and flute/piccolo – and especially appreciated pianists having … Read more
If you missed last night’s BLAZING world-class instrumental artistry and television-comedy-writer worthy humor that had the SOLD OUT Lincoln Hall audience laughing from the moment they walked on stage to their cheering standing ovation at the end of The David Mayfield Parade show, WE’RE SORRY FOR YOU (-: Because their third performance in Lincoln Hall … Read more
It was the Ultimate Father’s Day concert Saturday night in Lincoln Hall for a sold out audience as son and father – Benny Benack III and Benny Benack Jr (BB3 & BB2) raised the roof with sizzling hot JAZZ and the unbridled JOY of making music together and celebrating a three-generation tradition of musical genius, … Read more
Saturday night in Lincoln Hall, we were in the presence of legendary bluegrass greatness with Missy Raines’ performance with Allegheny and everybody knew it. And the band was phenomenal too! Hers was pinnacle virtuosity and artistry on her upright bass that crossed all genres with a passion and joy that was “in the zone” – … Read more
ARCA’s audience leapt to its feet with thunderous applause and BRAVOS on Sunday, May 4, 2025 for poetic and passionate BEETHOVEN in the hands of internationally acclaimed pianist David Allen Wehr and Pittsburgh Symphony’s Principal Cellist, Anne Martindale Williams in Foxburg’s Lincoln Hall. Charming the audience with humor and rich insights into Beethoven’s writing, Wehr … Read more
Saturday night’s concert with Pittsburgh’s hottest-on-demand vocalist and R&B Performer of the Year, CHANTAL JOSEPH and her band of Pittsburgh’s premier musicians was fabulous / great – a night of unforgettable entertainment – and a mutual LOVE-FEST between audience and performers – aka a REVIVAL MEETING. And that’s not an exaggeration. Like nothing ever seen … Read more
Sunday’s Lincoln Hall audience for ARCA’s 2025 Dr. Arthur D Steffee pianist – young genius composer and arranger SEAN CHEN – was filled with older adults, young parents, children AND students from elementary school to college. They were dazzled by his elegant and thrilling virtuosity in four Chopin Ballades connected by Sean’s improvisations and two … Read more
With the purity of their close vocal harmony in ‘Cool Yule’ songs from their Christmas album and contagiously joyous beatboxing by nationally acclaimed “Dr. Brick”, New York City’s award winning 5-person a cappella vocal quintet, BACKTRACK VOCALS, enthralled students from K to 12 in the Allegheny-Clarion Valley Schools on Monday, December 16, 2024. The ArtReach … Read more