Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24
< Christmas Eve < Sarajevo 12
| "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(s) | 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 "Shchedryk" (the melody of which has been used for "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.