Music, they say, hath charms. Larry Adler, 71, is a maestro of the harmonica whose U.S. concert career foundered in the 1950s when he was blacklisted for declining to identify friends as Communists. Edward L. Rowny, 68, is President Reagan's adviser on arms control and a man who lists to the right politically. But Rowny is also an avid harmonica player who used to deflate after-hours tensions at the 1982 Geneva arms talks by performing a Russian folk song or two. As teenagers, both men played together in a Baltimore harmonica band, and after one of Adler's concerts last year, Rowny...
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