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the Museum of Modem Art and the exhibition entitled 7000 Years of 

 Iranian Art. 



The Gallery greenhouse continued to produce flowering and foliage 

 plants in quantities sufficient for all decorative needs of special open- 

 ings and day-to-day requirements of the Garden Courts. 



The program of increased security protection for the Galleiy and 

 its works of art was furthered during the fiscal year by the acquisi- 

 tion of a guard dog. This dog and his handler, a Gallery employee, 

 were graduated from the regular training school of the District of 

 Columbia ]MetroxK)litan Police K-9 Corps and are now on duty at 

 the Gallery building. 



LECTOUR 



During the fiscal year 1964 Lectour, the Gallery's electronic guide 

 system, was used by 59,472 visitors. 



OTHER ACTIVITIES 



Forty Sunday evening concerts were given during the fiscal year in 

 the East Garden Court. These concerts were sponsored by the 

 Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the J. I. Foundation, Inc., and the 

 Andrew Mellon Endowment Fund of the National Gallery of Art. 

 The National Gallery Orchestra, conducted by Richard Bales, played 

 nine concerts at the Gallery during the season. One of these was 

 made possible in part by a grant from the Music Performance Trust 

 Fmid of the American Recording Industry. Tlie National Gallery 

 Strings, conducted by Mr. Bales, furnished music during two ex- 

 hibition openings. The concert on Sunday, October 20, 1963, was 

 dedicated to United Nations Day. Six Sunday evenings, in May and 

 June, were devoted to the Gallery's 21st American Music Festival. 

 All concerts were broadcast in their entirety by radio station WGMS- 

 AM and FM. Washington music critics continued their regular 

 coverage of the concerts. During the intermission periods of the 

 Sunday evening broadcasts, talks were delivered by members of the 

 staflp of the educational department on various art topics, and by Mr. 

 Bales on the musical programs. Seven 1-hour TV concerts of the 

 National Gallery Orchestra, with Mr. Bales conducting, were taped 

 at the National Gallery and telecast on WTOP-TV. Mr. Bales and 

 the National Gallery Orchestra received an award from the American 

 Association of University Women for the outstanding cultural and 

 educational contribution to the community through the television 

 programs ; and the Washington Chapter of the Academy of Television 

 Arts and Sciences presented an award to WTOP-TV for the presen- 

 tation of the National Gallery Orchestra's program of Italian Music 

 and Art, citing it as the best cultural program of the year. The 

 Baltimore Symphony Orchestra played Mr. Bales's arrangement of 



