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			<video:description>History has been grievously neglectful of Tournemire’s music and obdurate to his Ideals, and understandably so: His music’s intimidating intellectual content, the chaos enveloping the world at that time, the ever-burgeoning myopic apostasy of the secular postwar period where Faith is held as a pejorative state of</video:description>
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		<loc>https://richspotts.com/tournemire/9-lorgue-mystique/</loc>
		<lastmod>2026-07-19T18:13:46+00:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://richspotts.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Fantaisie-Epiphany-Score.webp</image:loc>
			<image:title>Fantaisie Epiphany Score</image:title>
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			<image:loc>https://richspotts.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/LOrgue-Mystique-Manuscript-79.webp</image:loc>
			<image:title>L&#039;Orgue Mystique (Manuscript) page</image:title>
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			<video:player_loc allow_embed="yes">https://www.youtube.com/embed/Vax0nwuG7KQ</video:player_loc>
			<video:thumbnail_loc>https://img.youtube.com/vi/Vax0nwuG7KQ/hqdefault.jpg</video:thumbnail_loc>
			<video:title>9: L’Orgue Mystique &#124; Richard C Spotts, Author</video:title>
			<video:description>On the fourth of January 1927, Tournemire played for the marriage of his student, Joseph Bonnet, and at the wedding, he announced in the presence of Dom Joseph Gajard (choirmaster at the Solesmes Abbey) and Louis Vierne that he would begin work on what was then termed L’Orgue Glorieux, something Bonnet had long been</video:description>
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			<video:player_loc allow_embed="yes">https://www.youtube.com/embed/l9veomops5k\u0026list=PLDcUYWfF15hnspyXxDNEA5__SMfcw7Xq_\u0026index=1\u0026t=153s</video:player_loc>
			<video:thumbnail_loc>https://img.youtube.com/vi/l9veomops5k\u0026list=PLDcUYWfF15hnspyXxDNEA5__SMfcw7Xq_\u0026index=1\u0026t=153s/hqdefault.jpg</video:thumbnail_loc>
			<video:title>9: L’Orgue Mystique &#124; Richard C Spotts, Author</video:title>
			<video:description>On the fourth of January 1927, Tournemire played for the marriage of his student, Joseph Bonnet, and at the wedding, he announced in the presence of Dom Joseph Gajard (choirmaster at the Solesmes Abbey) and Louis Vierne that he would begin work on what was then termed L’Orgue Glorieux, something Bonnet had long been</video:description>
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			<video:player_loc allow_embed="yes">https://www.youtube.com/embed/l9veomops5k</video:player_loc>
			<video:thumbnail_loc>https://img.youtube.com/vi/l9veomops5k/hqdefault.jpg</video:thumbnail_loc>
			<video:title>9: L’Orgue Mystique &#124; Richard C Spotts, Author</video:title>
			<video:description>On the fourth of January 1927, Tournemire played for the marriage of his student, Joseph Bonnet, and at the wedding, he announced in the presence of Dom Joseph Gajard (choirmaster at the Solesmes Abbey) and Louis Vierne that he would begin work on what was then termed L’Orgue Glorieux, something Bonnet had long been</video:description>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://richspotts.com/tournemire/8-an-improviser-of-genius/</loc>
		<lastmod>2026-07-19T18:13:14+00:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://richspotts.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Charles-Tournemire-36.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title>Charles Tournemire 36</image:title>
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			<image:loc>https://richspotts.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Polydore-01.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title>packaging sheet from audio recording of a Tournemire concert</image:title>
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		<video:video>
			<video:player_loc allow_embed="yes">https://www.youtube.com/embed/IZU8yQj6aa0</video:player_loc>
			<video:thumbnail_loc>https://img.youtube.com/vi/IZU8yQj6aa0/hqdefault.jpg</video:thumbnail_loc>
			<video:title>8: An Improviser of Genius &#124; Richard C Spotts, Author</video:title>
			<video:description>His musical works were legion; yet despite Tournemire’s enormous and incredibly profound compositional output, he is still most famously known as an improviser extraordinaire. In fact, most organists fail to know him beyond his Cinq improvisations. Recorded on cylinder at Sainte-Clotilde in 1930, they were</video:description>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://richspotts.com/tournemire/7-the-ageing-tournemire/</loc>
		<lastmod>2026-07-19T18:12:44+00:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://richspotts.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Charles-Tournemire-portrait-42.webp</image:loc>
			<image:title>Charles Tournemire portrait 42</image:title>
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			<image:loc>https://richspotts.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Alice-Taylor-01.webp</image:loc>
			<image:title>Alice Tournemire née Espir</image:title>
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			<video:player_loc allow_embed="yes">https://www.youtube.com/embed/rZzQ9teRPHo</video:player_loc>
			<video:thumbnail_loc>https://img.youtube.com/vi/rZzQ9teRPHo/hqdefault.jpg</video:thumbnail_loc>
			<video:title>7: The Ageing Tournemire &#124; Richard C Spotts, Author</video:title>
			<video:description>After this period of personal tragedy, Tournemire voraciously busied himself with some of his most profound musical output, climaxing in 1927 when he began perhaps his greatest work, the landmark L’Orgue Mystique. Written in the context of the interbellum renouveau catholique, this colossal cycle, consisting of</video:description>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://richspotts.com/tournemire/6-a-period-of-losses/</loc>
		<lastmod>2026-08-22T00:27:28+00:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://richspotts.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Tournemire-26.webp</image:loc>
			<image:title>Tournemire 26</image:title>
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			<image:loc>https://richspotts.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Alice-Espir-01.webp</image:loc>
			<image:title>Tournemire and His First Wife, Alice Taylor</image:title>
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			<video:title>6: A Period of Losses &#124; Richard C Spotts, Author</video:title>
			<video:description>Tournemire’s antebellum period (1898–1914) was a happy one fecund with success. In addition to acquiring the post at Sainte-Clotilde and his marriage to Alice Taylor, his musical output included his first five orchestral symphonies, and his cantata Le Sang de la Sirène, which won the Concours musicale de las Ville</video:description>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://richspotts.com/tournemire/5-josephin-sar-peladan/</loc>
		<lastmod>2026-07-19T18:11:00+00:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://richspotts.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Peladan-02.webp</image:loc>
			<image:title>Josephin Sar Peladan</image:title>
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			<image:loc>https://richspotts.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Rose-Croix.webp</image:loc>
			<image:title>Rose Croix Salon poster</image:title>
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			<video:player_loc allow_embed="yes">https://www.youtube.com/embed/Yc6IrYvkoVI</video:player_loc>
			<video:thumbnail_loc>https://img.youtube.com/vi/Yc6IrYvkoVI/hqdefault.jpg</video:thumbnail_loc>
			<video:title>5: Josephin “Sâr” Péladan &#124; Richard C Spotts, Author</video:title>
			<video:description>The vicissitudes endured by the Church and the appeals within the institution for musical integrity proved highly formative upon Tournemire, but then, in 1903, he married Alice Taylor, through whom he would have his initial foray into mysticism. Her sister was the wife of Josephin “Sâr” Péladan, a French mystic</video:description>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://richspotts.com/tournemire/4-laicism-and-the-religious-response/</loc>
		<lastmod>2026-07-19T18:10:31+00:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://richspotts.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Charles-Tournemire-at-desk-Ianco-07.webp</image:loc>
			<image:title>Charles Tournemire at desk Ianco 07</image:title>
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			<image:loc>https://richspotts.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Schola.webp</image:loc>
			<image:title>Bordes, Guilmant, and D’Indy</image:title>
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			<video:title>4: Laïcism and the Religious Response &#124; Richard C Spotts, Author</video:title>
			<video:description>In 1894, inspired by the work of Solesmes, Charles Bordes, Alexandre Guilmant, and Vincent d’Indy founded the Schola Cantorum, a society established to rival the Conservatoire devoted to the performance of plainchant according to the Gregorian tradition and that enjoined the creation of modern liturgical music. Born</video:description>
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		<loc>https://richspotts.com/tournemire/3-cesar-frank/</loc>
		<lastmod>2026-07-19T18:10:00+00:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://richspotts.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Dom-Prosper-Gueranger-abbe-de-Soleames.webp</image:loc>
			<image:title>Dom Prosper Gueranger abbe de Soleames</image:title>
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			<video:title>3: Solesmes and Gregorian Chant &#124; Richard C Spotts, Author</video:title>
			<video:description>While the organ world was embroiled with its own philosophical imbroglios, what was to be a seminal musical influence in France was established in 1832 by Pope Gregory XVI in the form of the Benedictine monastery of Solesmes. Under the guidance of Dom Prosper Guéranger, this abbey—which was partially destroyed</video:description>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://richspotts.com/tournemire/2-the-rise-of-franckianism/</loc>
		<lastmod>2026-07-19T18:09:27+00:00</lastmod>
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			<image:title>Cesar Frank</image:title>
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			<video:title>2: The Rise of Franckianism &#124; Richard C Spotts, Author</video:title>
			<video:description>The music of Tournemire and the mysticism expressed through his art did not manifest itself ex nihilo but is part of a greater metanarrative that begins with the theodicy of the Gallican Church as secular society grappled with dramatic political upheaval and as the Church struggled for survival and integrity within a</video:description>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://richspotts.com/ct_content_block/search-liturgical-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2025-07-20T23:43:10+00:00</lastmod>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://richspotts.com/ct_content_block/search-liturgical/</loc>
		<lastmod>2025-07-21T01:55:57+00:00</lastmod>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://richspotts.com/tournemire/lorgue-mystique-part-1/</loc>
		<lastmod>2026-07-19T18:08:41+00:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://richspotts.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Tournemire-51.webp</image:loc>
			<image:title>Charles Tournemire 51</image:title>
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			<video:player_loc allow_embed="yes">https://youtu.be/tmDAKh4egLY</video:player_loc>
			<video:thumbnail_loc>https://richspotts.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Tournemire-51.webp</video:thumbnail_loc>
			<video:title>1: Tournemire, the Early Years &#124; Richard C Spotts, Author</video:title>
			<video:description>Charles Tournemire was a brilliant but now largely forgotten musical Titan who, through his genius, created a seminal corpus of works for organ of supernal mystical transcendence that rightly ought to be lauded by each passing generation. Born in Bordeaux on the twenty-second of January 1870, Tournemire began his</video:description>
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			<video:player_loc allow_embed="yes">https://www.youtube.com/embed/tmDAKh4egLY</video:player_loc>
			<video:thumbnail_loc>https://img.youtube.com/vi/tmDAKh4egLY/hqdefault.jpg</video:thumbnail_loc>
			<video:title>1: Tournemire, the Early Years &#124; Richard C Spotts, Author</video:title>
			<video:description>Charles Tournemire was a brilliant but now largely forgotten musical Titan who, through his genius, created a seminal corpus of works for organ of supernal mystical transcendence that rightly ought to be lauded by each passing generation. Born in Bordeaux on the twenty-second of January 1870, Tournemire began his</video:description>
		</video:video>
	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://richspotts.com/liturgical-notes/trinity-sunday-15-june-2025/</loc>
		<lastmod>2025-07-21T02:01:55+00:00</lastmod>
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	</url>
	<url>
		<loc>https://richspotts.com/events/american-guild-of-organists-2026-national-convention/</loc>
		<lastmod>2026-07-07T11:46:39+00:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://richspotts.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/AGO-St-Louis.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title>AGO St Louis</image:title>
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			<image:loc>https://richspotts.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/AGO-St-Louis.jpg</image:loc>
			<image:title>AGO St Louis</image:title>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://richspotts.com/events/national-city-christian-church/</loc>
		<lastmod>2026-07-29T11:50:44+00:00</lastmod>
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			<image:loc>https://richspotts.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/National-City-Christian-Church-1920.webp</image:loc>
			<image:title>National City Christian Church 1920</image:title>
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			<video:title>National City Christian Church (Washington, District of Columbia) &#124; Richard C Spotts, Author</video:title>
			<video:description>National City Christian Church (Washington, District of Columbia) 5 Thomas Circle, NorthwestWashington, District of Columbia 20005 Friday, 21 May 2027 at noon, Friday Noontime Recital Series Æolian-Skinner—Möller Organ (141 Ranks) Information on the Instrument Video: Prior Performance for Music at Midday: Friday,</video:description>
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			<video:player_loc allow_embed="yes">https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xa5sYn1sJQc</video:player_loc>
			<video:thumbnail_loc>https://img.youtube.com/vi/Xa5sYn1sJQc/hqdefault.jpg</video:thumbnail_loc>
			<video:title>National City Christian Church (Washington, District of Columbia) &#124; Richard C Spotts, Author</video:title>
			<video:description>National City Christian Church (Washington, District of Columbia) 5 Thomas Circle, NorthwestWashington, District of Columbia 20005 Friday, 21 May 2027 at noon, Friday Noontime Recital Series Æolian-Skinner—Möller Organ (141 Ranks) Information on the Instrument Video: Prior Performance for Music at Midday: Friday,</video:description>
		</video:video>
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	<url>
		<loc>https://richspotts.com/events/past-recitals-2/</loc>
		<lastmod>2025-08-16T10:38:02+00:00</lastmod>
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