“He and his wife called a taxi to get him to his orchestra engagement. But when the taxi pulled up to deliver him to the theater, he couldn’t get out of the car. He had to be taken away by ambulance. ‘You have to be operated on within 72 hours,’ the doctor told him.” Anne Midgette writes about how Gianandrea Noseda coped with an enforced 50-day break due to a herniated disc.