Alexander McCurdy Jr. (August 18, 1905 in Eureka, California – June 1, 1983 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an organist and educator who taught a generation of America's most-prominent performers.

Dr. Noble was unable to take any more students and so suggested that McCurdy study instead with the great Lynnwood Farnam, first in New York (1924–1927) and then in Philadelphia's newly established Curtis Institute of Music.

[6] He had already made his professional concert debut at New York's Town Hall in 1926, and thereafter toured as a recitalist, often in duo performances with his wife since 1932, harpist Flora Greenwood.

[8] McCurdy headed the organ department at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute from 1935 to 1972 and also at Princeton's Westminster Choir College (later part of Rider University) from 1940 to 1965, where he received an honorary doctorate at the conclusion of his tenure.

These included Walter Baker,[10] Richard Purvis, David N. Johnson, Gordon Young, David Craighead, Thomas Schippers, James Litton, Barbara Owen,[11] Temple Painter, Robert Carwithen,[12] Hedley Yost,[13] John Weaver, Joan Hult Lippincott, William S. Wrenn,[14] William Whitehead,[15] George W. Decker, Cherry Rhodes,[16] John Binsfeld,[17] Keith Chapman, David Spicer, John Tuttle, Michael Stairs,[18] Gordon Turk, Karl Watson,[19] and Charles Callahan.