Mozart's Starling smells like dog who raucously confronted JFK and

who raucously confronted JFK and whose family name adorns the plaza where the president was murdered

and falda means skirt

and unflinchingly raw

Anne Boleyn's eleven fingers

Mozart's Starling smells like dog who raucously confronted JFK andAn NPR Best Book of the Year The unlikely and remarkable bond between one of history's most cherished composers and one of earth's most common birds. "A heady hybrid of science, history, how to and memoir" Los Angeles Times On May 27, 1784, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart met a flirtatious little starling in a Viennese shop who sang an improvised version of the theme from his Piano Concerto no. 17 in G major. Sensing a kindred spirit in the plucky young bird,