Background
He was born in Strathroy, Ontario, where his father owned a piano manufacturing company.
He was born in Strathroy, Ontario, where his father owned a piano manufacturing company.
University of Western Ontario.
Their daughter Priscilla sang on a rendition of Warwick Webster"s "Manitoba in a Raincoat", arranged by Don, which was an international hit in 1955 and resulted in Priscilla performing the song on The Editor Sullivan Show. Wright moved to Toronto in 1957, where he composed scores for films and television and published a number of choral and popular songbooks for use in school music programs. He subsequently endowed a number of university music scholarships in the 1960s.
After a generous donation, the University of Western Ontario renamed its music faculty the Don Wright Faculty of Music in his honour in 2002.
While attending the University of Western Ontario, Wright was a member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity.
