Music from the collection of the girl who became one of the most influential women in British history opens The Musicians In Ordinary’s season of The Principal’s Music Series at St. Michael's College.

Lutenist John Edwards, soprano Hallie Fishel and four other singers perform Franco-Flemish Latin Motets and chansons by Josquin Des Prez (1450-1521) and his contemporaries from the music collection of Anne Boleyn. Many celebrate the Virgin Mary and motherhood. Others are based on the Song of Songs and Mary Magdalene. Also included are contemporary basse dances for the lute from the Habsburg Netherlands and France.

The manuscript, with Boleyn’s name written in it, was possibly received as a gift when she was a young lady-in-waiting in France, training to be a courtier.

Preceded by a pre-concert talk by author Deanne Williams at 7:30.

Tickets at the door: $30, $20 students & seniors

NOTE: The concert concludes a daylong colloquium, The Music of Anne Boleyn: Anne Boleyn’s Music Book and its Court Contexts, at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (http://crrs.ca/event/anneboleyn).