The Middle Georgia State University School of Arts and Letters is hosting a symposium and concert on Thursday, Oct. 24, that focus on the life of Kathleen Lockhart Manning, an American composer and singer.

The event is designed to celebrate a collection of Manning’s diaries, scrapbooks, scores, prose, and poetry – items that one of her distant cousins by marriage, Eva Jean Upton, literally saved from the trash. In the process of going through the materials and doing some internet research, Upton’s husband stumbled across Dr. Rebecca Lanning, Middle Georgia State (MGA) music professor, who has extensively studied Manning’s life and works. The Uptons placed the archival items in Lanning’s care. As part of the October 24 event, which will also serve as a memorial to Eva Jean Upton, who died in 2018, the materials will be formally installed as part of the special collections of the MGA Library.

More information and the complete list of symposium events at https://www.mga.edu/news/2019/10/music-symposium-manning-upton.php.