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Celestial Music Jazz Artists

Celestial Music is a company that offers a wide variety of music, whatever your tastes are, from baroque to jazz, featuring instruments such as the harp, voice, violins, string quartets and more...
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Stella Castellucci,
internationally-known harpist, composer, teacher, lecturer, and author, is a native of Los Angeles, California. Music is part of her family tradition and heritage. Miss Castellucci's early harp study was taken with Aida Mulieri Dagort, Joseph Quintile, and Maryjane Mayhew Barton. Her training with Alfred Kastner was completed with Ann Stockton following Kastner's death. Miss Castellucci reached the pinnacle of her profession as a jazz harpist and composer through multiple avenues, beginning in radio as a staff musician for American Broadcasting Company, Hollywood, when she was nineteen. After two years at ABC, Miss Castellucci entered an eight-year association with famed singer Peggy Lee, playing harp in the jazz sextets and quintets that backed Miss Lee on her tours throughout the United States.Miss Castellucci was among the invited soloists at the 1987 World Harp Congress in Vienna, Austria.

Lights and Shadows Volume 1: is part of a collection of thirty-nine standards and three originals that were recorded live, in their entirety, in a small 1920's bungalow in Hollywood, California. Stella grew up with most of these songs, and in the course of a thirty-five year career as a studio musician, they have taken on their own personalities in her playing.

Castellucci has an uncanny knack for drawing the listener into her rich harmonic treatments. Although the style and texture of the disc is decidedly mellow, it is among the most beautiful, thoughtful, and dazzling performances I've heard in this vein. - Darin Kelly, The Harp Column

If you truly appreciate beautiful jazz ballads, artistic interpretation, and the mature balance of the cognitive and the expressive, this is a must have. - Ronald D. Price, Phd, Healing Harps Director

Lights and Shadows II: "little swing, a little Latin and other things." Without relying on a star-studded supporting cast, novelty arrangements, or studio-born dalliances, the recording makes the strongest case to date for the inclusion of the harp in the family of jazz instruments.

"From the opening chords of "Sposin`" to the feather - lightness of "Whispering," Castellucci gives each tune a feeling of inexorable intensity, while leaving the sheer beauty of the music to speak for itself." - Darin Kelly, The Harp Column

All CDs are $17.00 which includes shipping. Click here to Order

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