Several years ago I had the great good fortune to stumble upon a bin full of classical CDs, all great labels, at a garage sale run by a local church. This was from someone's estate, and I ended up getting the entire bin (300+ discs) because the woman running it was convinced no one would by classical - as I looked at it she walked up and said "I'll never sell those. $20 and the bin is yours." I handed over the bill, and have been working my way through listening to this collection ever since. Based upon the selections, I think he must have taught, using various performances of the same works as examples, but his collection included a lot of secular works, including opera. I've been slow to move into that part of the collection, but I think I'll do a little research on each one then give them a listen. I thought of this because there are a few Fra Musica discs in there.

SRS