George Palmer

Yes.

Well, it didn't play out well, unfortunately, because what happened was that after we finished doing the recording, Yossi Gabay, the engineer, was going to do the mix, editing and so on.

And he came to me one day and he said, look, I've just been diagnosed with a brain tumour.

oh god i've got to go into hospital i've got a surgery i hope it'll be all okay um i should know in about six weeks or seven weeks time uh please feel free to get somebody else to mix it i said look yossi um i i want you to do it you know we'd become friends by then he was terrific as an engineer i said well wait i will wait

And we waited, but unfortunately, Yossi took a lot longer to recover.

And unfortunately, in that time, my dad died.

So I didn't get to play it to him.

So that was sad.

Oh, terrible.

Terrible?

Oh, look, I'll tell you, terrible.

Yes.

The very first time I heard my music performed was in this recording studio with about 10 or 15 really top musicians, mostly Opera Australian and Ballet people.

And we didn't have a conductor.

I thought, okay, I'll conduct.

I know how it should go.

And I was up there waggling the stick and, stop, stop, cellos and violas, you're playing out of tune.

No, we're not.

Yes, you are.

Look, let's do it again.