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Eurovision Song Contest
What grade event is Eurovision Song Contest? People which count itself intellectuals, can tell, that it simply one more show. At the same time, nevertheless, tickets on Eurovision Song Contest are always ordered for months beforehand, and ratings of show are included, that during a final concert TV turn on almost in each house. But about 300 million people look Eurovision Song Contest in Europe, Asia and in Northern America. It clearly shows, that Eurovision Song Contest - really important event in music world.
First of all, Eurovision Song Contest is the delightful representation, uniting music, a vocal, beautiful suits, light show and creative imagination of a team of designers. In the second, it is competition among the countries, and each country can decide to attach significance to something adhered to this event. Besides, it is possible to look at this competition, as on “festival of the international friendship” - participants from the various countries arrive together and spend good week, communicating with each other. There is no aggression, there is no struggle for the big sums of money. In that case, certainly, Eurovision Song Contest is a competition for authors and executors of songs. The victory over the Eurovision does not mean an automatic international recognition and success, but such victory still to anybody and has not injured, as winners of the Eurovision notice.
At the middle fiftieth members European Broadcasting Union - EBU establish special committee before which to be put a task to investigate ways of rallying of the countries of Europe around of the program of easy entertainments. In Monaco at the end of January, 1955 this committee, under presidency by Marcel Bezenon, the general director of the Swiss Television, has acted from ideas of creation of competition of the songs, inspired with the most popular festival in San Remo (San Remo Festival). The idea has been approved by Generl Assembly EBU in Rome, on 19th October, 1955, and has been solved, that the first “Grand prix of the Eurovision” (so him has christened, by the way, a British journalist) will be lead by spring of 1956 at the Lugano, Switzerland. The Eurovision Song Contest is hosted annually since 1956. Its rules are changed some times. The Contest was becoming more and more popular, number of the countries which wanted to participate in it was increasing each year, and since 2004 it consist of two stages - the Grand-Final and Qualifying Round.
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