The choice moments that suddenly arise when you can see a grand life coming to a close in front of you seem to have no respect for death—and even less reverence for the heavy grief waiting in the wings to come next onstage. Life somehow goes on—even alongside a deathbed—as the living and the dying have learned. For the extraordinary musician and teacher Bill Hinkley, who died Tuesday morning, May 25, from a series of complications, his last days were filled with the uplifting and haunting music and the daily preoccupations that marked his time as a lifelong performer with his partner, co-conspirator, and busking sidekick, Judy Larson,... More >>>