Music: A Roof in Los Angeles

In Los Angeles' West Hollywood Auditorium one night last week, there was enough long hair to string a gross of fiddles.* About 600 of the local intelligentsia—artists, music students and professionals—turned up to hear a dozen or so musicians play a program of choice chamber music. It would have been quite all right with the musicians if no listeners had turned up at all. For the concerts called "Evenings on the Roof" (now in their 14th season) are "for the pleasure of the performers, and will be played regardless of audience."

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