158 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1954 



OTHER ACTIVITIES 



Thirty-seven Sunday evening concerts were given during the fiscal 

 year 1954 in the West Garden Court. The National Gallery Orches- 

 tra, conducted by Richard Bales, played eight concerts at the Gallery 

 with additional performances at the United States Naval Academy at 

 Annapolis, Md., and at the Community Center in Middleburg, Va. 

 One of the orchestral concerts at the National Gallery was made pos- 

 sible by the Music Performance Trust Fund of the American Federa- 

 tion of Musicians. During April and May, five Sunday evenings were 

 devoted to the Gallery's Eleventh American Music Festival. All the 

 concerts were broadcast in their entirety by Station WGMS, Wash- 

 ington, D. C, and the Good Music Network. The intermissions, dur- 

 ing these broadcasts, featured discussions by members of the cura- 

 torial staff on major aspects of the National Gallery as well as on 

 musical subjects by Mr. Bales. 



During September 1953, the National Gallery Orchestra assisted by 

 the Church of the Reformation cantata choir and soloists recorded 

 for Columbia Mast^rworks the long-playing record of "The Con- 

 federacy" by Mr. Bales. This record is scheduled for release during 

 the fall of 1954. 



The photographic laboratory of the Gallery produced 12,180 prints, 

 386 black-and-white slides, 708 color slides and 101 color transparen- 

 cies, in addition to 2,106 negatives, infrared and ultraviolet photo- 

 graphs. 



During the fiscal year, 1,682 press releases were issued in connection 

 with Gallery activities, and 202 permits to copy paintings and 184 

 permits to photograph in the Gallery were issued. 



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, 1954, by Price Waterhouse & Co., public 

 accountants, and the certificate of that company on its examination of 

 the accounting records maintained for such funds will be forwarded 

 to the Gallery. 

 Respectfully submitted. 



Huntington Cairns, Secretary. 

 Dr. Leonard Carmichael, 

 Secretary^ Smithsonian Institution. 



