Atarah Ben-Tovim [SEP] date of birth
Atarah Ben-Tovim
Atarah Ben-Tovim, MBE (born 1940) is a British flautist and children's concert presenter.
Born in Wales, Ben-Tovim played her first television concerto live at the Royal Albert Hall, at the age of fourteen. She was principal flautist with the National Youth Orchestra, and then from 1963-75 principal flautist with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. She left the RLPO to found Atarah's Band in 1975, a group which sought to improve children's experiences with classical music
and Anjelica Huston.
- The film Chocolat (2000 film), directed by Lasse Hallström and starring Juliet Binoche and Johnny Depp, was shot in part in the village of Beynac-et-Cazenac, on the Dordogne River.
In popular culture Literature.
- Jean M. Auel's "Shelters of Stone" (2002) takes place in what is now Dordogne.
- Douglas Boyd, the author husband of flautist Atarah Ben-Tovim, set parts of each of his six thrillers in Dordogne.
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