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Atarah Ben-Tovim, MBE (born 1940) is a British flautist and children's concert presenter. Born in Wales,〔GRO Birth records, Abergavenny, October–December 1940〕 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. Atarah was awarded the MBE in 1980 for her work in this field and by the time that the band called time, it had played to over three million people.〔see http://www.atarah.tv/?page_id=164〕 She has guested on several UK television and radio shows, including ''Lunchtime Pebble Mill'' on BBC TV and the ''John Dunn Show'', ''Start the Week'' and ''Kaleidoscope''. In the late 1980s, BBC Radio Three networked ''Atarah's Music Box'', all about children and music and ''Omnibus'' devoted a whole programme to her work, as did ''Blue Peter'' and ''Magpie''. Her own television series, aimed at primary school children (Called "Atarah's band"), aired in 1982.〔(TV.cream.org )〕 Her musical stories for little children in ''Rub-a-Dub-Tub'' on Sunday mornings ran for over two years. BRMB (Birmingham), Radio City (Liverpool), Radio Merseyside (Liverpool), Radio Piccadilly (Manchester), Red Rose Radio (Preston) and many other stations carried her radio series over the years. She currently resides in France, where she teaches and holds workshops for budding flautists and clarinetists.〔(Culture: Reaching children with music for the soul; Atarah )〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Atarah Ben-Tovim」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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