 Trotter was also a classical music expert and collector, owning one of the largest collections of vinyl and CD recordings in the Southeast.He wrote on classical music for the "Charlotte Observer", the "High Point Enterprise", and the "Greensboro News & Record", among others, and served as program annotator for Greensboro's prestigious Eastern Music Festival.He was an acknowledged expert on the works of Jean Sibelius, the subject of his novel "Winter Fire", and Leopold Stokowski, whose Trotter-penned biography has gone as yet unpublished but has made the rounds of the Leopold Stokowski Society for many years.