(Unpublished Trial Disc): Soprano Odette Le FONTENAY: Yesterday & Today ()

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 (). 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 ***************************** 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. https://ad