Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24
| "Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24)" | ||||
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| Single by Savatage / Trans-Siberian Orchestra | ||||
| from the album Dead Winter Dead and Christmas Eve and Other Stories | ||||
| Released | October 1996 | |||
| Recorded | 1995 | |||
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| Length | 3:26 | |||
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| Producer | Paul O'Neill | |||
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| "Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24" on YouTube | ||||
"Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24" is an instrumental medley of "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" and "Carol of the Bells", first released on the Savatage album Dead Winter Dead in 1995 as "Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24)". It was re-released by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, a side project of several Savatage members, on their 1996 debut album Christmas Eve and Other Stories. The piece describes a lone cello player (based on Vedran Smailović) playing a forgotten Christmas carol in war-torn Sarajevo.