Ménière's disease the inner ear. The American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Committee on Hearing and Equilibrium (AAO HNS CHE) set criteria for diagnosing Ménière's, as well as defining two sub-categories of Ménière's: cochlear (without vertigo) and vestibular (without deafness). In 1972, the Academy defined criteria for diagnosing Ménière's disease as: In 1985, this list changed to alter wording, such as changing "deafness" to "hearing loss associated with tinnitus, characteristically of low frequencies" and requiring more than one attack of vertigo to diagnose. Finally in 1995, the list was again altered to allow for degrees of the disease: In 2015, the
Tale for a Deaf Ear injection to Laura as the chorus intones the moral, "The only death in life is the death of love." The opera has been performed very infrequently since its premiere; in 1997, a production was mounted in New York with the Center for Contemporary Opera. In February 2018, the opera will receive its Midwest premiere at the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, where it will be grouped in a triple bill with Bernstein's "Trouble in Tahiti" and Gian Carlo Menotti's "The Telephone". Tale for a Deaf Ear Tale for a Deaf Ear is an opera in one act