Uploaded February 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Soprano Odette Le Fontenay (1885-1965)
Yesterday and Today
Charles Gilbert Spross (music)
Gertrude Rogers (lyrics)

NOTE: Unlike most acoustic recordings, this undocumented, unissued single-sided Columbia professional trial disc was made in a resonant, echoey room (c.1917).

Yesterday, Ah yesterday!
The skies were grayed
Weary the lonely way
Where lengthening shadows creeping
Laid their fear upon the day
Yesterday, Ah yesterday!
Love delayed
Today, today, all flushed with gold.... the sky
And through the forest shade
I follow to the brooklet's cry
That fills with melody the glade
Today, today is Heav'n
For thou art nigh

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Odette Le Fontenay (October 6, 1885 – November 24, 1965):  French operatic soprano and music educator based in the United States after 1913. She sang with the Metropolitan Opera in its 1916-1917 season.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odette_Le_Fontenay

https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/mastertalent/detail/326794/Le_Fontenay_Odette?Matrix_page=100000

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