Paul Leddington Wright

WRIGHT, Paul Leddington. b. 28 August 1951. Wright is a composer, arranger, conductor and organist. Formerly Organ Scholar at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, director of the Methodist Association of Youth Clubs (MAYC) Orchestra and Singers, and Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral (1984-95). He was for many years one of the principal conductors and arrangers for BBC television’s ‘Songs of Praise’; he also regularly directs music for BBC Radio 4’s ‘Daily Service’. His hymn tune, EMMA was published in HP (1983), where it was set to Frances Ridley Havergal*’s ‘Take my life, and let it be’*. It has since been associated with ‘Morning glory, starlit sky’* by William Hubert Vanstone*. He...