Reports of Affiliated Organizations 



The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the 

 National Gallery of Art, and the Woodrow Wilson Interna- 

 tional Center for Scholars were established by Congress 

 within the Smithsonian Institution under their own boards 

 of trustees. The Institution provides administrative services 

 on contract to Reading Is Fundamental, Inc., an independent 

 organization. 



John F. Kennedy Center for the 

 Performing Arts 



lames A. Johnson, Chairman 

 Lawrence ]. Wilker, President 



The Kennedy Center is America's living memorial to Presi- 

 dent John F. Kennedy and the national center for the 

 performing arts. The Kennedy Center commissions, produces, 

 and presents more than 3,500 performances of music, theater, 

 and dance from this nation and abroad. It makes the perform- 

 ing arts available to everyone through free and discounted 

 performances, nurtures new works, supports American artists, 

 and serves the nation as a leader in arts education. This year, 

 more than 5 million people visited the Kennedy Center. The 

 Kennedy Centet's national reach was extended through tour- 

 ing productions, television, and the Internet. An additional 1 

 million people attended Kennedy Center touring productions 

 nationwide, and more than 10 million people watched 

 Kennedy Center television broadcasts. 



The Kennedy Center has two permanent Millennium 

 Stages dedicated to free daily 6:00 p.m. concerts. Since the 

 program's inception, more than 500,000 people have 

 watched the nightly concerts, 375 groups have made their 

 Kennedy Center debuts, and more than 9,000 artists from 



around the world and all 50 states have performed on the 

 Millennium Stage. On April 1, a daily live Internet broad- 

 cast was inaugurated at www.kennedy-center.org. 



The Kennedy Center's National Symphony Orchestra and 

 Music Director Leonard Slatkin completed a highly success- 

 ful year nationally and internationally. They performed from 

 Beijing to Biloxi and received world recognition for being 

 advocates of American music. Innovative festival program- 

 ming was the highlight of the season and featured five 

 festivals. The orchestra made its debut in China before Presi- 

 dent Jiang Zemin and completed a Seventh American 

 Residency in Mississippi, where it spent 10 days in perform- 

 ance, including 1 1 5 education and outreach events. It also 

 earned the highest praise yet for its Carnegie Hall concerts. 



The Kennedy Center continues to build a worldwide repu- 

 tation for commitment to quality in theater. Last season's 

 highlights featured the Washington pte-Broadway premieres 

 of Footloose, which broke box office records in New York, and 

 the Tony Awatd— winning revival of Annie Get Your Gun. 

 Brothers of the Knight, a Kennedy Center commission, by Deb- 

 bie Allen and James Ingram, won a Helen Hayes Award for 

 outstanding choreography. Stunning international ptesenta- 

 tions graced the stages: the American premiere of A Hotel in 

 the Town ofNN (Russia), The Game of Love and Chance and Les 

 Arts Sauts (France), Orfeo (Canada), and Manuel Mendive (Cuba). 

 African Odyssey completed a third season with a yearlong cel- 

 ebration of music, dance, and theater of the African Diaspora. 

 Africa Fete, the center's world music tour, performed in 16 

 cities. The center's "Imagination Celebration" on tour in- 

 cluded 200 nationwide performances in 82 cities and 49 states 

 of Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, The Nightingale, and Little 

 Women. More than 500 colleges participated in the center's an- 

 nual American College Theater Festival. 



The Kennedy Center's commitment to new work in dance 

 continued with the commissioning of collaborations between 



