156 ANNTJAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1956 



Academy at Annapolis, Md. ; at the Corcoran Gallery of Art ; and in 

 Alexandria, Va. Two of the orchestral concerts at the National Gal- 

 lery were made possible by the Music Performance Trust Fund of the 

 American Federation of Musicians. A preseason concert was played 

 by the National Gallery Orchestra on Tuesday, September 7, 1954, 

 sponsored by the International Congress of Clinical Pathologists at 

 a reception held at the National Gallery. 



During April and May, six Simday evenings were devoted to the 

 Gallery's Twelfth American Music Festival. All the concerts were 

 broadcast in their entirety by Station WGMS-FM, Washington, and 

 the Good Music Network. The intermissions, during these broadcasts, 

 featured discussions by members of the curatorial staff on painting 

 and sculpture in the National Gallery of Art, as well as on musical 

 subjects by Richard Bales. 



In October 1954, the Columbia recording of "The Confederacy" by 

 the National Gallery Orchestra with the Church of the Reformation 

 Cantata Choir, soloists, and speaker was released. It has received 

 widespread press notice, including an article in the Saturday Review 

 of March 19, 1955, by former President Truman. 



The photographic laboratory of the Gallery produced 7,368 prints, 

 366 black-and-white slides, 20,101 color slides, 105 color transparen- 

 cies, in addition to 1,820 negatives, color-separation negatives, infra- 

 red and ultraviolet photographs and X-ray shadowgraphs ; also 2,936 

 lantern slides were boimd. 



During the fiscal year, 1,289 copies of press releases were issued in 

 connection with Gallery activities, and 302 permits to copy and 141 

 permits to photograph in the Gallery were also issued. 



OTHER GIFTS 



Gifts of money were made during the fiscal year 1955 by the Old 

 Dominion Foundation and the Avalon Foundation. 



AUDIT OF PRIVATE FUNDS OF THE GALLERY 



An audit of the private funds of the Gallery has been made for 

 the fiscal year ended June 30, 1955, by Price Waterhouse & Co., public 

 accountants, and the certificate of that company on its examination 

 of the accoimting records maintained for such fimds will be for- 

 warded to the Gallery. 

 Respectfully submitted, 



Huntington Cairns, Secretary. 

 Dr. Leonabd CARMIOELA.EL, 



Secretary^ STrdthsonian Institution. 



