Male voice choir Láska opravdivá
The male voice choir Láska opravdivá was founded in 2009 by choirmaster and teacher Jaroslav Černocký and musicologist Jan Špaček, with the intention to revive the once rich and now nearly faded tradition of interpretation of compositions for male choir. The choral body is based in Brno at the Institute of Musicology, which is part of the Faculty of Arts of the Masaryk University, and its members are mostly students or alumni of various Brno colleges. At present there are about twenty permanent members. The repertoire specializes in orthodox sacred music, mainly of East Slavic tradition, and in Czech choral music of the 19th and 20th centuries, especially by Leoš Janáček. Láska opravdivá ("True Love") is the title of one of Janáček’s early male choruses on folk texts; as a name for a choral body, it should symbolize its repertoire’s unity of sacred music and folk song.