Timothy Long is a musician, conductor, and music professor based in New York City and Rochester, NY.

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(00:00) Chasing bigger towns, landing at Juilliard in 1994

(03:45) Small-town Oklahoma roots and mixed tribal identity

(07:10) Two churches, two worlds, learning to “assimilate”

(10:35) Language, humor, and realizing “Indian” on TV

(14:05) Muskogee and Choctaw history, Trail of Tears context

(18:40) Dawes rolls, blood quantum cards, slow-burning erasure

(22:30) Opera “Missing” and using privilege as a platform

(26:10) Mother’s TB survival and Beethoven as childhood soundtrack

(30:05) First lessons, theory coloring book, obsession ta ...