Ronald Dean Harbor

HARBOR, Ronald Dean. b. Greenville, South Carolina, 7 August 1947. Ronald Dean (Rawn) Harbor is a Catholic composer and liturgical musician. He received early encouragement and piano instruction from his family, a high school music teacher, and Springfield Baptist Church, an African American congregation in Greenville. Harbor received degrees from Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina (BM, 1971) in music theory and composition, and the Franciscan School of Theology in San Diego, California (Master of Theological Studies, 2001) in liturgy.  Soon after graduating from Furman University in 1971, Harbor moved to Washington, DC. He paid a penny a minute to practice the piano at the...

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