West Point Band: Fault Lines
Fault Lines, Perry Goldstein
West Point Saxophone Quartet

"Fault Lines" (1998) was composed as a celebratory piece for saxophonist Arno Bornkamp and pianist Ivo Janssen (to whom it is dedicated) on the occasion of their fifteenth anniversary as a duo. Short (just over three minutes) and lively, the work's gestural language pays homage to bebop, the American jazz style of the latter 1940's that features continuous lines played at breakneck speed. The harmonic language derives from the blues. The main body of the piece, highlighting the alto saxophone against a bluesy piano vamp, occurs twice, surrounded, at beginning, middle, and end by passages featuring melodic unisons.

"Fault Lines" was premiered at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw by Arno Bornkamp and Ivo Janssen on September 15, 1998. This version, for saxophone quartet, was arranged for the Aurelia Saxophone Quartet, and was premiered Beurs de Berlage in Amsterdam on January 30, 2000. This recording by the West Point Saxophone Quartet beautifully captures this piece.

-Perry Goldstein
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