Koreshan State Historic Site

A professor at FGCU who researched Koreshan music is bringing their music back to life.Dr. Thomas Cimarusti, a professor of musicology at FGCU, specializes in 18th and 19th-century Italian vocal music, world music, and public musicology. In 2018, he went to the FGCU archives and found a Koreshan soundbook with just the text. He and a student were able to track down the songs and link the music and text.

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