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with 4 additional performances in Charlottesville and Middleburg, 

 Va. Two of the orchestral concerts at the Gallery were made possible 

 by the Music Performance Trust Fund of the American Federation 

 of Musicians. The orchestra also gave two children's concerts at the 

 Corcoran Gallery of Art. During April the Sunday evenings were 

 devoted to the Gallery's Ninth Annual American Music Festival, 

 featuring 34 works by 15 American composers. Most of the concerts 

 were broadcast in their entirety by Station WCFM, Washington, and 

 those of the National Gallery Orchestra and the American Music 

 Festival were carried by the Continental FM Network. The Na- 

 tional Gallery Orchestra made two long-playing records, one of which 

 was selected by the New York Times for its list of outstanding record- 

 ings of the year 1951. During August and September 1951 the Na- 

 tional Gallery Orchestra played the first regular series of symphonic 

 music on television as part of the NBC "Heritage" programs of art 

 and music originating in the Gallery. This was selected by the New 

 York Times as the finest serious music program of 1951 on television. 



The photographic laboratory of the Gallery produced 14,028 prints, 

 390 black-and-white slides, and 928 color slides during the fiscal year, 

 in addition to 3,214 negatives, as well as X-rays, infrared, and ultra- 

 violet photographs. 



During the fiscal year 1952, a total of 2,698 press releases were issued 

 with respect to Gallery activities, while 161 permits to copy paintings, 

 and 240 permits to photograph in the Gallery were issued. 



OTHER GIFTS 



Gifts of books on works of art and related material were made to 

 the Gallery by Paul Mellon and others. Gifts of money were made 

 during the fiscal year 1952 by the A. W. Mellon Educational and 

 Charitable Trust, the Avalon Foundation, and the Old Dominion 

 Foundation. An additional cash bequest was received from the estate 

 of the late William Nelson Cromwell. 



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, 1952, 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. 



The Secretary, 



Smithsonian Institution. 



