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Wednesday, 1 February 2017

Dina composer: Rêverie sur la Saguenay


In 1920 Dina’s cousin made her religious profession in the Monastery of Chicoutimi, city in the Saguenay, a river which starts in St-Jean Lake and goes until the St-Lawrence river.
In order to attend this ceremony, several persons from Jacques Cartier’s Parish, Dina among them, decided to take a cruise.  When they returned to Quebec the Parish priest, Mr. Cloutier, asked Dina to write a musical piece as souvenir of that trip.  She finished this composition in April 1921, a few months before she entered the noviciate of the religious of Jesus and Mary in August 1921 and the title is Rêverie sur la Saguenay.    
You can admire this beautiful and smooth melody which evokes the beauties of nature to which Dina was very sensitive. Sr Rachel Fournier, rjm. interprets this piece. Listen to it following this indication:

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