Another big week of rock and blues concerts is shaping up for Minneapolis. It has become a regular, agonizing decision every week making up one's mind where to go. This week, however, things are spread out, making such choices easier — as long as the money holds out.

It starts tonight at The Depot, where blues king B.B. King takes over for two shows, at 8 and 11 p.m. King has been around a long time and, at age 43, has finally received recognition. He has two fairly new albums out, "Live and Well" and "Completely Well," which reflect this new popularity. He toured with the Rolling Stones recently and has since played with such pop stars as Eric Clapton, Elvin Bishop and others who claim they have been influenced by him.

Then on Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the Cedar Village Theater, the Walker Art Center will bring in a pair that is the essence of black folk blues, Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry. They have been working together for 31 years and have reached a state of almost sublime harmony with McGhee singing, playing his guitar and a new contraption called the jazzbone, a kazoo-like arrangement taped to a trombone. His blind partner is a master of the blues harp.

Also on Tuesday, in the only competition this week, Luther Allison and his Chicago Blues Band will play from 8 to 10 p.m. on the Northrop Auditorium plaza at the University of Minnesota. The concert is free, sponsored by the Department of Concerts and Lectures. Allison is another B. B. King-inspired musician. He began playing bass professionally at 17, and at 19 took over Freddy King's old band. He's now all of 29 and has picked up many influences, especially King, his brother Albert King and Otis Rush. His performance will be the second of six in the free "University Blues Series" this summer.

Then at 8 p.m. Friday at the Minneapolis Auditorium, The Who return, only two weeks after their successful engagement at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. The four-man group, one of the most dynamic stage acts ever, has another best seller now in "Live at Leeds" and is featured in the movie "Woodstock." Led by whooping, leaping lead guitarist Peter Townshend, The Who is now doing only one or two selections from the rock opera "Tommy." They claim they're tired of it. Most of their concert will be new material and numbers from other records.

The St. Paul Council of Arts and Sciences has received a three-year, $45,000 grant from the Louis W. and Maud Hill Family Foundation to support programming and a program in poetry education with the public schools. The "Poetry-in-the-Schools" program brings local and national poets into the schools to read and discuss their work and conduct seminars for local teachers. Already, such poets as Allen Ginsberg, Louis Simpson and Robert Bly have been here under its auspices.

The Summer Arts Study Center at Sugar Hills near Grand Rapids, Minn., has been given a $130 scholarship by the Bloomington Woman's Club. It will cover full expenses for one student at any workshop after July 6. The University of Minnesota Drama Advisory Service, which administers the center, will choose the recipient.

Lew Reeve, former assistant to the director of the Department of Concerts and Lectures at the University of Minnesota and sometime critic for The Minneapolis Star, has been appointed director of the new fine arts complex at the College of St. Catherine.

The Minneapolis Ensemble Theater under the direction of Joe Walsh will present Michael McClure's controversial play "The Beard" opening Friday at the Guild for the Performing Arts, 504 Ce-

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