TUCSON, AZ.- The collection spans the wide variety of music that Linda Ronstadt, a Tucson native, produced during her career. The University of Arizona School of Music has announced the recent acquisition of the Linda Ronstadt Collection. The collection contains orchestrations, memorabilia and photographs. Many of the manuscripts were written by bandleader Nelson Riddle and add to the UA’s already extensive collection of mid-20th Century American music. Ronstadt was one of the defining and most musically diverse icons of her generation. After attending the UA briefly in the 1960s, she left Tucson and moved to California to pursue her interests in music. She joined a folk-rock trio, the Stone Poneys, and within a few years had a hit album. Ronstadt then embarked on a solo career, which over the course of the 1970s produced a number of chart-topping records in country