An event Bauer herself considered one of the highlights of her entire career was the May 8, 1951 New York Town Hall concert devoted exclusively to her music. Sponsored by the Phi Beta fraternity at the time of Bauer's retirement from NYU, the works performed that day spanned her entire career and included two previously unperformed works: the "Dance Sonata", Op. 24 (1932) for dancer and piano (later expanded and revised as "Moods" for solo piano) and "Trio Sonata II" for flute, cello, and piano. The concert was reviewed by Olin Downes of the "New York Times", who wrote positively of the event : “The music is prevailingly contrapuntal and dissonance is not absent. Yet the fundamental concept is melodic, the thinking clear and logical, the sentiment sincere and direct.”