Update in B-land: Before I found out whether or not I got in, I called him (about a week after the last phone call) to ask him for his opinion of Longy School (since he knows a zillion musicians, I thought he'd have the low-down). When he picked up the phone he said really excitedly, "Where are you?" We started talking about our different impressions of the Longy school, it evolved into a much deeper conversation where he basically said: "You have a vision and a dream for your life and most people don't have that. What I hear from you is that you want to be living your dream NOW, you need to be doing it NOW. I think Longy has the potential to be that place for you, but it will only be a place for you to live your dream if you MAKE it that place, because it's not about Longy, it's about you at Longy."
Then we had an exchange that went something like this: T: Yeah, I can't predict what my experience will be like there because my experience being there will be a unique manifestation that's never happened before. B: That's exactly what I'm trying to say, but you said it so much better, wow, that was beautiful. T: (sort of joking) It's probably easier to paraphrase that idea than say it eloquently the first time! B: Well, what you said was still beautiful.
later in the conversation I told him what he said was so nice, it almost made me cry, and I just really want to share my energy with the world, and I don't know where to go to do that. At the end of the conversation he said, "Be sure to let me know what you decide." ???!!!
This conversation was about 90 minutes long... I'm just writing down the highlights I remember.
