John Wiser replies to me: >Steve Schwartz wrote: > >>One-Hit Wonder implies a composer who wrote one good piece or a piece >>that is SO much better than the rest of his output. > >Pardon me, but it implies nothing of the kind. It is ordinarily intended >to described a composer with one conspicuously POPULAR work ("one-hit," >get it?) and doesn't call the quality of all other works into question. Sorry, but it does, at least in idiomatic English. I agree with your definition as primary (which I felt too well known to require mention), but the secondary definition does exist, at least in the low circles I move in. If all language were confined to the dictionary, we'd be a lot poorer. Steve Schwartz *********************************************** The CLASSICAL mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's HDMail High Deliverability Mailer for reliable, lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html