AUCTIONS–BY ITEM
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Individual pieces
Tier 1: Personalized Composition (Starting Bid: $50); 10 Available
- Like in the recital today, Dave will record a short composition based on your suggestion (such as a melody you hum, or perhaps the name of a pet or loved one. If it is a name or a word, it will be converted into music so that it can be used as a melodic theme).
- You will be free to share this with friends, like as a Christmas card or just for fun.
Top ten bidders will be the winners.
Tier 2A: Pick A Piece For The Choir To Sing (Starting Bid: $500)
- The piece is to be performed by WUU choir in Fall 2021-Winter 2022
- Must coordinate with Director of Music, Dr. Jamie Bartlett to pick music appropriate for our choir to sing, regarding level of difficulty and appropriateness for a WUU service
Top ONE bidder will be the winner.
Tier 2B: Pick A Piece For The WUU Recorder Ensemble To Perform (Starting Bid: $500)
- The piece is to be performed by WUU Recorder ensemble in Fall 2021-Winter 2022
- Must coordinate with Vicki Hall, one of the members of the recorder ensemble, to pick appropriate music based on difficulty and appropriateness for a WUU service
Top ONE bidder will be the winner
Tier 2C: Pick A Piece For Dave Robbins To Perform In A WUU Service (Starting Bid: $500)
- The piece is to be performed by Dave in Fall 2021-Winter 2022 during a WUU service
- Must coordinate with Dave to pick appropriate music based on difficulty and appropriateness for a WUU service.
Top ONE bidder will be the winner
Piano Recital pieces
Choose any work from the following list:
- Any single piece from the album Horowitz in Moscow, by Vladimir Horowitz
- Any Chopin Etude, Waltz, Nocturne, Mazurka, or Prelude
- Any Liszt Etude
- Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue for solo piano
- Any solo piano piece by New Age composers David Lanz or George Winston
- Debussy Arabesques No. 1 & 2
- Debussy Claire de Lune
- Debussy Sunken Cathedral
- Liszt’s Harmonies du Soir Etude in Db for piano
- Any piano prelude by Ruth Crawford Seeger
- Any solo piano work by Philip Glass from Solo Piano or Piano Etudes
Top THREE bidders will be the winners
Choose any work from the following list: These are either more challenging or more substantial in duration:
- Ravel’s Ondine
- Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, Op. 27, No. 2
- Any Mozart Piano Sonata
- A movement from George Crumb’s Macrocosmos
- John Luther Adams’ Among Red Mountains
- Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
- Chopin’s Ballade No. 1 or 4
- Chopin’s Scherzo No. 1 or 4
- Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition
- Any J. S. Bach Prelude & Fugue
- Bach’s Chaconne in D Minor, arranged by Brahms for Left Hand alone
- Beethoven Piano Sonata #31, Op. 109, 110, or 111
- Schubert’s Impromptus
- Any Debussy Etude for Piano
- Robert Schumann’s Kinderszenen
- Any movement from John Cage’s Sonatas & Interludes
- Galina Ustvolskaya’s Piano Sonata No. 5
- Schumann Fantasy for Piano
- Schubert Sonata in A Minor
- Chopin’s Heroic Polonaise in Ab
- John Adams’s China Gates
- Arnold Schoenberg’s Drei Klavierstucke, Op. 11
Top TWO bidders will be the winners.
Choose any work from the following list that Dave will prepare for a recital. These are all substantially challenging works with about 30-60 minutes in duration, and/or are highly technically challenging, such as the Ligeti Etudes.
- John Cage’s Sonatas & Interludes for prepared piano
- Frederic Rzewski’s The People United Will Never Be Defeated
- Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations, Op. 120
- Beethoven’s Appasionata Sonata, Op. 57
- Beethoven’s Waldstein Sonata, Op. 53
- Any Chopin Piano Sonata
- Liszt’s Piano Sonata
- Any 2 Etudes for Piano by Gyorgy Ligeti
- Robert Schumann’s Carnival
- Robert Schumann’s Kreisleriana
- Ligeti’s Musica Ricercata
- John Adams’s Phrygian Gates
Top ONE bidder will be the winner.