Tired yet of “Frosty,” “White Christmas” and “Jingle Bells”? Boulder’s classical musicians have the answer for you: whole concerts of Christmas music that avoid the inescapable standards currently flooding the airwaves and suburban malls. No sleigh rides, roasting chestnuts or reindeer shouting with glee.

If you mix the right ingredients, you will get pure gold. That was the belief of the medieval alchemists, and it is the belief of Bahman Saless, who mixes the musical ingredients as director of the Boulder Chamber Orchestra.

Cynthia Katsarellis likes to travel. In fact, the director of the Pro Musica Colorado chamber orchestra likes travel so much that she has organized the group’s 2012-13 season as a series of musical journeys, starting with “Mozart Travels to London” Friday and Saturday in Denver and Boulder.

Igor Stravinsky: mashup artist? Indeed, the great Russian composer was mixing up styles long before the term “mashup” was invented.

Tom Morgan wants to hear something new. "As I get older I’m less interested in hearing the same sounds over and over again," he says.

If someone says ´can’t,´ that shows you what to do.”

Turning back the clock would be a futile endeavor for most of us, but for Frank Nowell, it is a productive and creative activity.

It’s going to be a “blue jeans plus dinner jacket” kind of season with the Boulder Philharmonic this year.

The 2012 Colorado Music Festival (CMF) surges to its conclusion this week with concerts Thursday and Friday by the Festival Orchestra — one of the best I have heard in recent years at CMF — conducted by Michael Christie.

Central City’s 2012 season offers an emotionally varied program. With the final opening night of the season Saturday, the ghosts of Benjamin Britten’s Turn of the Screw joined the starving artists of Puccini’s La Bohème and the homespun Americans of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! on the bill.