Note: The IUP academic year has two 16-week semesters; each semester is divided into two eight-week modules with different classes, textbooks and teachers in each module. The summer session lasts eight weeks, with 40 days of classes.
Macchio,s classical guitar solos were apparently played by classical guitarist Arlen Roth. Steve Vai played his own guitar solos in Crossroads. In the 1986 movie Crossroads, which starred Ralph Macchio, his blues guitar solos were played by Ry Cooder. Macchio,s classical guitar solos were apparently played by classical guitarist Arlen Roth. Steve Vai played his own guitar solos in Crossroads.
This is a really, really good movie and I don't understand why no one ever mentions it or why it is never on cable. It has everything that I love in a movie: good story, great characters well acted, fine comedy and powerful touching drama. Ralph Macchio is a brilliant young guitar student, Eugene Martone, at Julliard (or some other equally good music school) who does not want to play Mozart.