The Light Stays — string quartet in G, a lament in the major, after Rameau's Tristes apprêts (Castor et Pollux). One tune passed around the quartet on the breath: every phrase is 4/4 4/4 4/4 5/4, the singer's last note a long breath out, the fifth beat the next player's breath in, alone. The ground sinks G F E Eb D under it; two singers in close seconds; the breath quickens to four gasps at the cry; the cello alone; the morning again, exactly as it was; the last chord an open fifth. 51 bars, quarter = 44, about 5:30. Cadence, for Graham Paasch, 2026.