A song that advocated freedom of the Czech people, I assume?
What a neat group that must be! What kinds of things do you usually sing for?
Actually, "Pisnicka Ceska" is translated as "Czech Song" and it refers to the songs the people sing that draw them together: Czech, Moravian, and Slovak. The Commies didn't like ANY form of nationalism.
"What a neat group that must be! What kinds of things do you usually sing for?"
Money. Fame. You know: the usual. Actually, we are quite busy in the summer months. We sing at lots of church festivals, city celebrations, and sometimes we are invited to perform for civic groups or special events, like Havel's visit.
Anything ethnic around this area involves Czech music to a large degree, so summer weekends are almost always booked somewhere. Lots of parades and celebrations, as I said above. At the end of the year, whatever grants, donations, and payments were made to the group are divided among us according to how many of the engagements we participated in. It usually runs around $150 per singer. But we have recorded 5 albums, one of which is sold out. There is a great demand in this area for the kind of music we sing, and people are actually impressed when we tell them that we sing with this group.