“When Catherine Hewgill suddenly found her legs slipping from under her in the car park of the Sydney Opera House, her instinctive reaction was to protect her 300-year-old cello.” She succeeded in that, but the principal cellist of the Sydney Symphony shattered something even more precious to a musician in the fall – her wrist. Doctors were convinced that her career was over. Fortunately, they never shared those convictions with Hewgill.