Andy Stein

Andy Stein is an American saxophone and violin player best known for his appearances with the country rock band Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen. Stein attended the University of Michigan as a contemporary of George Frayne. He is also known for The Guys All-Star Shoe Band on the radio show A Prairie Home Companion and the movie. He has also written a number of film scores, including the soundtracks for Hollywood Boulevard (1976), Thunder and Lightning (1977), Deathsport (1978) and National Lampoon's Movie Madness (1983). He plays the violin in the Ken Burns documentary The War (2007).
Andy Stein made arrangements of classical pieces by Franz Schubert. He reworked the String Quartet No. 14, D.810, nicknamed Death and the Maiden, into a symphony for full orchestra, and the Fantasia in F minor, D.940 for piano four-hands into a Fantasia Concertante for piano and orchestra. These arrangements were repeatedly performed in the United States as well as Europe.