Classical Music, Latest Project

I've been working daily on new piano music for a reception in August. Every time I begin a new and challenging  piece, I fear "I don't think I can memorize this", or "It's too hard, I won't get it in time for the performance". But, the time finally comes, the one day, when I see the "light emerging", and I know I will accomplish it in time! I'm very used to doing all my own arrangements on harp, with folk and jazz and most genres - rather easy to do - so I don't have to attend to whether I'm playing in a way that will get a passing mark from someone else; I'm not in it to be critiqued, to be judged or graded. I can wander and play as I feel and everyone will love it. But this wedding couple has asked for specific classical pieces and kindly sent me all the music, so I'm playing just as the composer intended. When you play a written score, you are interpreting the music according to the concepts of the creator of that work. This is the case with classical music from all the great composers of the 17th through the 19th centuries. I hope I can do justice to Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Satie, Grieg and Debussy. I'm familiar with this music and have played around with a couple of them, but never learned any of these "fluently". I'm grateful for the opportunity to learn them and thankful to the wedding couple for giving me this "assignment". I've focused so much on Celtic harp in the last few years, I neglected piano. I'm heading out for a 2-week holiday and that will cut into my practice time so I'm hitting it hard during my weeks at home. These tunes are so beautiful and while playing, I think of these composers. I have my composer picture above my piano, so I can look at their faces while I'm playing, imagining them at the keyboard, melody and harmony running through their thoughts and getting it just right!