These days you don't often hear performances of the Haydn concertos, which have somehow acquired a reputation for being charming but small-scaled works.
A good example of such a situation is found in the Middle East, where singing is never allowed in the mosque, though one may hear performances and even buy records of "readings" from the Qurʾān.
Balances could be odd at times: you rarely hear performances in which the bright cornettos are all but drowned out by the choir at the start of the work, but that happened here.
"CHILD VIRTUOSOS: A MUSICAL ENCOUNTER," will let youngsters hear performances by young musicians and then speak with them afterward, tomorrow at 8 p.m. at Snug Harbor, Veterans Memorial Hall, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Livingston, Staten Island.
Throughout the evening, gala attendees will hear performances by singer songwriter Joan As Police Woman, up-and-coming world music act Yemen Blues with Ravid Kahalani, and acclaimed proto-punk rocker Jonathan Richman.
I am not suggesting that all concert presentations be changed, as there is great value in the traditional format of sitting in a concert hall in silence to hear performances.
This implies that obtained word identification accuracy scores might not be unequivocally attributed to hearing performance.
The use of confusion matrices might therefore not be the method best suited to measure hearing performance.
Word repetitions tasks provide a combined auditory-linguistic profile of the patient and might thus not be best suited to measure hearing performance or to guide the rehabilitation of hearing impaired patients.
EAS recipients display substantial benefits in hearing performance compared to profoundly deaf recipients who rely on electrical stimulation alone in pitch perception [ 6], speech perception [ 2, 4, 7– 10], listening in background noise [ 11– 14], and music appreciation [ 8, 15].
Yet, an important drawback in the use of speech audiometric test batteries for hearing performance assessment is that current test batteries do not typically use stimuli that are controlled for both auditory and linguistic features.
