Eurovision glass trophy, a human voice altar, where art preaches to Europe peace through song and music
By Albert Vataj
Although we were not lucky enough to bring this trophy to Albania, despite the « Zjerm » claims of Shkodra electronic, you would probably be curious to learn something about this glass cup, which did not become ours, but invited us to the magical challenge of the song, gathering us all together as a celebration.
In a world separated from the borders, languages and stories, it is the voice that finds the way to one heart to another, despite the diversity of aesthetic cultures and approaches of identity affiliations coming to one of the most prestigious songs of song and music on the old continent that is renewed for three nights and vitality. Rhythm.
And this Eurovision Song Contest ornament is more than a cup, it is an artistic symbol inherited and personalized every year, with a special history and design that summarizes the spirit of the festival, it is a trophy, both delicate and monumental, which summarizes this journey as a clear metaphor, the Eurovision glass microphone.
The seemingly simple, in the form of a microphone of the 1950s, he holds within the whole history of this festival, a story that began in 1956, in the emotional ruins of World War II, as a call to create unity through music. Not coincidentally, the trophy is translucent. He does not hide anything, as an invitation to sincerity, for transparency of feelings. Worked by the hands of Costa Boda’s masters in Sweden, this trophy is not just a price, it is a testimony.
It weighs about 3.5 pounds, 27 cm long, and yet it carries much more than that, it significantly significantly the dreams of an artist, the pride of a nation, and the memory of a night that is not forgotten. In every detail, there is a dedication to memory and rite. When the winning artist raises it up, he does not just win a competition, he becomes the voice of a Europe he listens and sings together.
This microphone does not need to be functional, it does not transmit sound but symbolic. And this is more powerful. He is an altar of human voice, an object of beauty that does not sing, but speaks quietly to all those who have dared to say something, in a scene that belongs to everyone.
Indeed, every year this trophy is personalized, at its base the name of the winner and the year of the event, as a seal of eternity. A memory that cannot be repaid, because the song he won will continue to be heard, remembered, illuminate the nights of memories.
And so, Eurovision is not just spectacle. It is an annual confession of love, hope, identity and acceptance. And this trophy, translucent, fragile, beautiful, is the flagman of this story and the journey of art.
