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Baroque on Beaver 2023

Also Baroque on Beaver 22nd season

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TypeEvent
Dates2023-07-29 – 2023-08-01
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Event
Dates
2023-07-29 – 2023-08-01
Kind
Music festival
Participants
Robert Nordling (director)
Carried out by
Beaver Island Performing Arts Alliance
Followed by
Baroque on Beaver 2024
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
music-folkloreperformancecommunitytourism
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

Baroque on Beaver’s own 2023 program identifies that year as “the 22nd season of the Baroque on Beaver Island Festival and Nordling’s 14th season as Music Director.” Four dated concerts are named in the program excerpt captured for this article, spanning Saturday, July 29 through Tuesday, August 1, 2023; whether the full festival week extended beyond these dates is not established here.1

Program

  • Saturday, July 29, 7:30 p.m., Beaver Island Community Center — Ying Li, piano: Couperin; Ravel, “Le Tombeau de Couperin”; Richard Strauss/Percy Grainger, “Ramble on Love”; Liszt, Ballade No. 2; and selections from Albéniz’s Iberia.1
  • Monday, July 31, 4:00 p.m., Whiskey Point Lighthouse — “Brass on the Grass,” the Metallurgy Brass Quintet.1
  • Monday, July 31, 7:30 p.m., Beaver Island Community Center — “New and Next,” a contemporary program hosted by Music Director Robert Nordling, with works by Carlos Salzedo, Dan Senn, Alexandra Gardner, Allison Loggins-Hull, Nikola Resanovic, Luciano Berio/Stefano Scodanibbio, and Scott Meister.1
  • Tuesday, August 1, 7:30 p.m., Gillingham Auditorium, CMU Biological Station — “Chamber Music Waterside”: Tony Manfredonia’s “Fanfare of Fourths” (Metallurgy Brass Quintet), J.S. Bach’s Ricercar a 6 from A Musical Offering, Handel opera excerpts, Scott Joplin’s “Maple Leaf Rag,” and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Nonet, Op. 2 in F minor.1

The program’s own biography for choral director Kevin Simons marks 2023 as his final season before leaving for Saginaw Valley State University — consistent with the February 2024 Northern Islander announcement that 2024 would be the first season without the Festival Chorus.1

Evidence limits

This article rests on the festival’s own 2023 program, read and quoted on 3 August 2026, and a separate web-research capture of the same material. No held periodical covers the 2023 season: the held Beaver Beacon run ends in April 2011, and a direct search of the held Northern Islander run (2024-01 through 2026-04) for “baroque” turned up no issue that reports on the 2023 season specifically — 2024 and 2025 issues describe those seasons’ own programs, not 2023’s. The four concerts listed above are the only dated events captured from the program excerpt; they establish a minimum date range (July 29–August 1) but not the full festival’s outer bounds.2

Open questions

  • Did the 2023 festival include events before July 29 or after August 1?
  • What was the complete printed program, including any events not captured in this excerpt?

See also

Footnotes

  1. Baroque on Beaver, 2023 festival program, accessed 3 August 2026. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  2. Beaver Island festivals web-research capture, data/kb_research/festivals_web_research.json, 3 August 2026. ↩

Sources

  1. A participant reported that Baroque on Beaver had obtained a county permit to close the road around a free Jewel Gillespie Park concert and said the permit directions were followed. This is a first-person community account that helps explain the event’s traffic arrangement, not the permit itself or an independent safety finding.
    forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 17 · t017799
  2. The notice advertised the Festival Chorus Founders Vocal Concert at Beaver Island Community School on August 2, with Kevin Simons conducting and ticketed/free seating. It documents a program notice, not attendance or completion.
    forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 17 · t017867
  3. States "2023 is the 22nd season of the Baroque on Beaver Island Festival and Nordling's 14th season as Music Director." Names four dated concerts: Saturday, July 29, 7:30 p.m., Beaver Island Community Center — Ying Li, piano (Couperin; Ravel, "Le Tombeau de Couperin"; Richard Strauss/Percy Grainger, "Ramble on Love"; Liszt, Ballade No. 2; Albéniz, selections from Iberia). Monday, July 31, 4:00 p.m., Whiskey Point Lighthouse — "Brass on the Grass," Metallurgy Brass Quintet. Monday, July 31, 7:30 p.m., Beaver Island Community Center — "New and Next," a contemporary program hosted by Robert Nordling (works by Carlos Salzedo, Dan Senn, Alexandra Gardner, Allison Loggins-Hull, Nikola Resanovic, Luciano Berio/Stefano Scodanibbio, and Scott Meister). Tuesday, August 1, 7:30 p.m., Gillingham Auditorium, CMU Biological Station — "Chamber Music Waterside" (Tony Manfredonia, "Fanfare of Fourths," Metallurgy Brass Quintet; J.S. Bach, Ricercar a 6 from A Musical Offering; Handel opera excerpts; Scott Joplin, "Maple Leaf Rag"; Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Nonet Op. 2 in F minor). Kevin Simons's own biography in this program marks 2023 as his last season as Choral Director before leaving for duties at Saginaw Valley State University.
  4. Beaver Island festivals web-research capture, 3 August 2026.
    In-repo research capture recording the 2023 program URL above with its verbatim quotation and 3 August 2026 access date. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    kb_research · festivals_web_research

Added 3 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Baroque on Beaver 2023”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/baroque-on-beaver-2023/, accessed [date], citing Lois Sowa Stipp, “Concert last night at Jewel Gillespie Park clarification,” Beaver Island Forum, July 5, 2023. (and 3 further sources listed on the page).

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