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- Alexander_McCurdy abstract "Alexander McCurdy, Jr. (18 August 1905 Eureka, California – 1 June 1983 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an organist and educator.After overcoming early struggles with infantile paralysis, McCurdy moved east to study organ with Lynnwood Farnam, first in New York (1924–1927) and then in Philadelphia's newly established Curtis Institute of Music. In 1931 he became one of the institute's earliest graduates, and went on to earn a second diploma there in 1934. He had already made his professional 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. They had two children, Alexander "Sandy" McCurdy III (a prominent minister and psychoanalyst) and Xandra McCurdy Schultz (whose son produced a televised mini-documentary on his organist grandfather).McCurdy became organist and choirmaster at Philadelphia's Second Presbyterian Church in 1927, where he greatly enlarged the pipe organ. After a 1949 merger, this was the First Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, from which he retired in 1971.McCurdy headed the organ department at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute from 1935 to 1972 and also at Princeton's Westminster Choir College (now part of Rider University) from 1940 to 1965, where he received an honorary doctorate at the conclusion of his tenure. He taught hundreds of organ students over the years, with many becoming major concert performers and composers. These included Carl Weinrich, Walter Baker, Richard Purvis, David N. Johnson, Gordon Young, David Craighead, Thomas Schippers, James Litton, Temple Painter, Robert Carwithen, Hedley Yost, John Weaver, Joan Hult Lippincott, William Whitehead, George W. Decker, Cherry Rhodes, John Binsfeld, Keith Chapman, David Spicer, John Tuttle, Michael Stairs, Gordon Turk, and Charles Callahan.McCurdy's students generally manifested a sublime lyricism in playing, and more than a few shared his affinity for the Symphonic school of pipe-organ design. This affinity has helped preserve several important Symphonic organs in Philadelphia, particularly the Wanamaker Organ, the E.M. Skinner organ at Girard College Chapel, and the Curtis Organ at Irvine Auditorium (University of Pennsylvania).On May 13, 2005, Westminster Choir College celebrated McCurdy’s centennial year with a daylong series of concerts and remembrances at the Princeton University Chapel and Westminster’s Bristol Chapel, including featured performances by Weaver, Lippincott, Tuttle, and Stairs. For many years, Westminster held the "Alexander McCurdy Competition in Organ Performance" among its students.McCurdy donated his music collection to the Bagaduce Music Lending Library.".
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- Alexander_McCurdy comment "Alexander McCurdy, Jr. (18 August 1905 Eureka, California – 1 June 1983 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an organist and educator.After overcoming early struggles with infantile paralysis, McCurdy moved east to study organ with Lynnwood Farnam, first in New York (1924–1927) and then in Philadelphia's newly established Curtis Institute of Music. In 1931 he became one of the institute's earliest graduates, and went on to earn a second diploma there in 1934.".
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