Ronstadt credits her family with setting her on her musical path. She writes glowingly of her childhood. Her father was a baritone who sang in Tucson venues as Gil Ronstadt and his Star-Spangled Megaphone. Her brother and sister played piano, and the family spent evenings harmonizing. Singing was her focus. “I didn’t think about being famous, or people knowing me,” she says. “I just thought, ‘I’d like to have a job singing.’ It seemed like it would be more fun than working in a bank.”.

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Composing has always been a source of discovery for Parker, whose works include operas, oratorios, ballets, film scores and compositions for solo instruments, as well as bands, large and small. “You have to go beyond the rules. What Duke taught us was, if you want to do it, you can do it. If you hear it, it can be done. You just have to have the willpower and energy to not let anything stop you. If one sound doesn’t work, you try another. If it doesn’t work when you play it loudly, when you turn down the volume and play it softly, it’s a beautiful color. That’s the wonderful thing about music, that there are so many choices. Sound is your palette. And you’re painting against a canvas of silence. It’s all about experimenting. And Ellington did that.

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Auction items include a football camp put together by Zach Ertz, a recent Monte Vista High graduate who played college ball at Stanford and is a tight end on the Philadelphia Eagles. Another unusual auction item is a dinner for five couples at the Haener household, donated by Jones, Steve Kerr (the Golden State Warriors’ general manager) and Tom Tolbert (a retired National Basketball Association player and radio show co-host in San Francisco and NBA commentator for NBC, ESPN and ABC). The dinner will be prepared by Rodney Worth, the award-winning chef and owner of four restaurants in Danville and Blackhawk, including the Peasant & the Pear, the Little Pear, the Prickly Pear Cantina and Ferrari’s Cucina Italiana. He also owns the Peasant Courtyard in Alamo and the Pear Southern Bistro in Napa.