Andy Stein is an American

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and

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

player. He is a member of The Guys All-Star Shoe Band on the radio show ''

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'' and the

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. He was a founding member of the

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band

Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen were an American rock band founded in 1967. The group's leader and co-founder was pianist and vocalist George Frayne IV, alias Commander Cody (born July 19, 1944 in Boise, Idaho, died September 26, 2021 ...

. Stein attended the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

as a contemporary of George Frayne ("Commander Cody"). He has also written a number of film scores, including the soundtracks for ''

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'' (1976), '' Thunder and Lightning'' (1977), '' Deathsport'' (1978) and '' National Lampoon's Movie Madness'' (1983). He plays the violin in the Ken Burns documentaries '' The War'' (2007) and '' The West'' (1996). Andy Stein made arrangements of classical pieces by

Franz Schubert Franz Peter Schubert (; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short lifetime, Schubert left behind a vast ''oeuvre'', including more than 600 secular vocal wor ...

and

Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classic ...

: He reworked the String Quartet No. 14, D.810, nicknamed ''Death and the Maiden'', into a symphony for full orchestra (with winds & Timp.), the

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for piano four-hands into a ''Fantaisie Concertante'' for piano and orchestra, and

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into an Octet (for clarinet, horn, bassoon, string quartet and double bass.) These arrangements along with his composition "Suite for Two" violin and 'cello were repeatedly performed in the United States as well as Europe.

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