Malloy sent a full house of kids off into the afternoon playing the William Tell Overture by slapping their cheeks.
With the orchestra happily participating, bobbing up and down to order (not easy playing the cello) and popping up in far-flung corners of the venue, and Malloy providing his own virtuoso solo turns on marimba and glass harmonica…. The boldest experiment, however, was a piece of mass improvisation that involved everyone in a recreation of the spirit of the Spontaneous Music Ensemble. And, just to prove that a sym-phony orchestra and a concert hall are not essential to music making, Malloy sent a full house of kids off into the afternoon playing the William Tell Overture by slapping their cheeks.