Manhattan's worldlywise, bee-busy Museum of Modern Art has a plushy, subterranean auditorium where, between series of movie classics, its customers have heard Mexican music, Brazilian music, movie music, Parisian music (by Darius Milhaud). Last week Museumgoers heard something even more tittupy: the first of six "Coffee Concerts" whose artists will range from an angel-winged, guitar-playing Negro bishop to a squeeze of Spanish bagpipers.
The Coffee Concerts were brewed by a member of the Museum's music committee: Louise Crane, wide-eyed, 27-year-old onetime Vassar student, daughter of Massachusetts' late, rich, paper-manufacturing Governor Winthrop Murray...
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