SOUTHBURY — The Remember Warsaw Corporation will host a screening of the oratorio Remember Warsaw at the Southbury Public Library at 1 p.m. on Sunday, September 27. The event is free and open to the public. Roger Ames composed the music for the oratorio, and librettist Bernard Kaplan of Sherman, Connecticut, and Queens, New York, composed the lyrics. Matthew Mehaffey of the University of Minnesota conducted the performance by the Minnesota Oratorio Society in 2011, and this is the 80-minute version that will be screened.
Remember Warsaw is the story of three young adults who face the trials and horrors of life in Warsaw, Poland, between 1939 and 1943. Rachael and her brother, Aaron, have to decide whether to stay with the family during the Holocaust or run for freedom.
Rachael and her boyfriend, Joshua, discover both the passion and the security of romantic love just as the entire vibrant, rich, and learned Jewish community of Warsaw is under attack by the Nazis. The choices they make, the deep love they experience, and the futures that they dream of are interwoven with the terror of the Nazi movement.
Kaplan will introduce the oratorio and be available for questions following the screening. More information about the oratorio is available at rememberwarsaw.org.