How many people here have gone to a classical music concert of any sort? OK, you can all go back to lowering your hands and sitting on them.

Why is it perfectly acceptable for those who perform the "high art" to have the words or music in front of them while those of us who perform the "low art" end of the scale get censured for it? Music is music. If he were still alive, would you ask Monet to paint without his model/pond in front of him? Get over it.