Logie E. Wright was a most accomplished Sierra Leonean musician, music educator, music scholar, dramatist, conductor and composer.
He taught music at the Freetown Teachers College (FTC) and the Milton Margai Teachers College (MMTC) from 1961-1988 and for over four decades, made an immeasurable contribution to the development and progress of music education in Sierra Leone.
Logie Wright arranged and harmonised the melody of Sierra Leone’s National Anthem, as composed by John Akar with words by Clifford N. Fyle, for the country’s independence in 1961.
“Echo of Voice” is a compilation of L.E. Wright’s works and a treasure trove of church anthems, settings of psalms in Krio and in English, hymns, carols and traditional Sierra Leonean songs.
In collaboration with other music enthusiasts, Logie Wright launched the Ballanta Academy in 1955 – the only institution of its kind in Sierra Leone – and he became its first Principal.
The Academy was named after a great Sierra Leonean musicologist and librettist Nicholas George Julius Ballanta, born in March 1893 to Krio parents in Kissy, a village in the eastern outskirts of the country’s capital city, Freetown.
Also famed for his amazing self-discipline, the music Maestro Logie Ebenezer Wright, M.O.R, was undoubtedly among the finest ever produced by Sierra Leone.
