Berlin High School

Performing Arts Department

Philosophy

"The opportunities provided for each individual student in the Berlin Performing Arts Program are focused

on offering experiences to young people that will result in their finding joy and excitement in

creative endeavor.

It is our hope that through various phases of the program that students will be continuously brought

into contact with the creative experience either directly or indirectly. The hope is that each student

will find the arts to be an intimate experience and that she or he may someday make an

individual commitment to it.

The important element in the arts program should be the individual's musical growth and experience,

and the development of that growth toward an appreciation of the arts.

The program exists as a vehicle for the musical growth of the individual student -- the student does not exist

for the program. The development of a creative way of life as taught through creative musical experiences

is the desired end."

- Written by Mr. Paul Karam