The Lydians choir will celebrate its 40th anniversary with the Christmas concert “Deo Gratias” (Thanks Be to God), from December 12 to 15 at the Queen’s Hall, St Ann’s. “Deo Gratias” will feature some ...

Sardis was the capital of the Lydians, a powerful Iron Age civilization (8th-6th centuries BCE) known for its wealth and early coinage production. The city had a unique urban structure with fortified ...

In response to the Etruscan story comments like this keep popping up: The articles in the press keep mentioning the Etruscans coming from Lydia. Lydian was an indo-european language. So, although ...

When the Lydian String Quartet premieres “Treatises For An Unrecovered Past,” its members and audience will conjure music from different times and places. Kurt Rohde, who won the inaugural Lydian ...

Pulitzer Prize–winning music critic Lloyd Schwartz called them “a resident string quartet of the highest quality and deepest integrity.” Alan Rich, in the Los Angeles Daily News, called them “one of ...

The average person may not be able to point out Anatolia on a map, but if you know where modern-day Turkey is, you have a good idea of where it once was. Bordered on three sides by the Black, Aegean, ...

The Lydians presented their Christmas concert “Arise, Shine!” at Queen’s Hall, St Ann’s on December 11 and 12, performing perennial classics such as the “Hallelujah Chorus”, “O Holy Night” and parang ...

Sardis was one of the pre-eminent Iron Age cities of the ancient world. Located in western Türkiye, it was the capital and only city of the Lydians. The Lydians rose to prominence in the 8th-6th ...