Part 2
Roussel's setting of Psalm 80 (for tenor solo, mixed chorus. and large orchestra) was composed in 1928 and per;ormed for the first t.me the following year at the Paris Opera under Albert Wolff.Roussel set the Pialm in English, taking his text from theAuthor sed Version of the Bible, and this will be uoed tonight. For a French translation he drew on the Segond version of the French Bible.) The score bears a dedication to Queen Elisabeth at Belgium. D.C.