Klarinet Archive - Posting 000704.txt from 2001/09

From: Bear Woodson <bearwoodson@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] U. of AZ has failed Disabled Concerto Composer
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 20:33:36 -0400

Well, they've actually done it! In response to hard
work, and growing International Attention, a composer
who is in progressively failing health from severe Dia-
betes, has been failed and forced out of the Graduate
College and is no longer allowed to be a Music Major!
Why has the University of Arizona done this shocking
and unfair thing? It is done as a result of their Head
Composer, Professor Daniel Asia, who always gives
poor grades when Doctoral Student Composer "Bear"
Woodson writes another Fugue, Sonata or Concerto!
Would you do that if you had a student, who is break-
ing records worldwide for the quantity and quality of
his music?

That's the Practice of the University of Arizona in
Tucson, as following the supervision of University
President Peter Likins. President Likins has been aware
of Bear Woodson's pleas for help for the last few years,
and has refused to do anything other, than further the
blatantly illegal violations of Arizona State and Federal
Laws, regarding Disabled Students. Woodson is 47
years old, is only surviving on Student Loan Money
and is in failing health, due to advancing complications
from Diabetes.

Composer Thomas C. Woodson has been "chubby
and bearded" for many years, ergo earning him the
nickname "Bear" for so long, that it is almost a legal
name. Bear Woodson has had works played by leading
musicians such as Cellist Paul Olefsky, Tubist Roger
Bobo, Bass Trombonist Douglas Yeo, Harpist Helga
Storck, the Peabody Camerata, etc. His Trumpet
Sonata was given its World Premiere at the Beijing
Conservatory in China on June 1, 2001, by Trumpeter
Ed Reid and Pianist Dr. Paula Fan.

Woodson doesn't even have a website yet, but via
several Instrument Lists on the Internet, is getting
works played in 15 countries around the world in only
2 1/2 years! Three CD's of his music have already
been recorded.

In the field of Modern Classical Music, it is an ex-
tremely rare to find anyone able to write ONE Fugue,
Sonata, Concerto, Symphony or Opera. Even if they
can, it is usually their final Thesis or Dissertation. But
Bear Woodson has competed SIX Sonatas, worked
on THREE Concertos, with his Horn Concerto being
finished in only six months, and all just as his normal,
daily output! This likely breaks all records, worldwide
for the last 100 years! But it will never be good enough
for the University of Arizona, nor Prof. Daniel Asia.

A Sonata is usually a work for keyboard alone, or
for some instrument accompanied by piano. Bear
Woodson has written Six Sonatas, just while at the
University of Arizona. A Concerto is a work for a
Solo Instrument in front of an orchestra. Woodson
has begun a series of concertos, that feature each
instrument of the orchestra.

Professor Daniel Asia immediately gave Woodson a
Failing Grade for his virtuoso "Ashkenazic Rhapsody
for Harp" which can be played either by harp alone, or
with orchestra. This same work has gained high praise
by leading harpists, including Helga Strock of Munich.

Most Music Conservatories all over the world, would
kill to have a Composer-Professor, and more so to have
a Student Composer, who could write more than one
such work. But this is not true at the University of Ari-
zona! Although these many rare achievements will place
Bear Woodson in a permanent place in history, the Uni-
versity of Arizona seems bent on discrediting and erasing
all such validity of his works. How do they plan on doing
this, since Bear Woodson is gaining fame for writing
several complex, yet highly lyrical Fugues, Double
Fugues and even a Triple Fugue? Try asking Professor
Daniel Asia, who has never learned how to write a
fugue! And yet Prof. Asia actively discredits the many
elaborate fugues of Bear Woodson!

Bear Woodson grew up moving often all over the
US and Europe. He dabbled in 8 languages, but now
can only really get by in German as a Second Lang-
uage. His music includes homages to many cultures,
races and people. He hopes to complete several more
concertos, a few symphonies, and at least one opera,
hopefully on the Life of Martin Luther King.

In the Fall of 1998 there was a dispute with another
professor, in which the Music Faculty and Prof. Asia
learned in detail, that Bear Woodson has Full Disability
Status, which allows Woodson to write his music at
home, when driving would be hazardous. Woodson is
becoming more limited to staying home, as the constant
dizziness and numbed feet worsen from the Diabetes.
For Prof. Asia to now pretend that he didn't know all
of this, looks like he is willfully spitting in the face of
the Laws. Arizona has put new laws in place in the last
decade; it is now almost impossible to sue for Discrimi-
nation against a Medical Disability in Arizona, so Prof.
Asia can spit all he wants, knowing that he will get
away with it.

Woodson has talked to dozens of attorneys in other
states, who warned that due to the fear of going up
against a major employer, like the University of Ari-
zona, NO Arizona-Resident Attorney would dare take
the case. Woodson has also talked to over 140 Arizona-
Resident Attorneys, who all find convenient reasons for
not taking the case. What an amazing series of coinci-
dences!

Every attorney, who lives outside of Arizona has
also said, that if this story should get published, it
would result in costing the University of Arizona as
much as 20 to 40 Million Dollars in lost contributions
in the coming years. The problem is, most newspapers
resist printing a story, that hasn't been released by an
attorney, and no Arizona-Resident Attorney will
take a case, that could get him black-balled in the
eyes of the local Good Ol' Boy System.

On top of everything else, a recent diagnosis of
dangerously High Blood Pressure has further com-
plicated Bear Woodson's life.

All other possibilities have been tried. This is a
desperate plea for help from publicity and attorneys.
Please contact the composer at the information
given below.

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"Bear" Thomas C. Woodson
3636 N. Campbell Ave.
Apt. 3119
Tucson, AZ, U. S. A.
8 5 7 1 9 - 1 5 4 5

Home: 520 - 881 - 2558
Voice-Mail and Digital Pager:
520 - 575 - 2077
"Bear Woodson" <BearWoodson@-----.Com>
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