Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24

"Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24)"
Single by Savatage / Trans-Siberian Orchestra
from the album Dead Winter Dead and Christmas Eve and Other Stories
Released	October 1996 (1996-10)
Recorded	1995
Genre	Christmas symphonic metal progressive metal
Length	3:26
Label	Lava Atlantic WEA
Songwriter(s)	Robert Kinkel Paul O'Neill Jon Oliva
Producer(s)	Paul O'Neill
Savatage singles chronology
"Dead Winter Dead" (1995) "Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24)" (1995) "One Child" (1996)
Trans-Siberian Orchestra singles chronology
"Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24" (1996) "The World That He Sees" (1998)
Music video
"Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24" on YouTube

"Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24" is an instrumental medley of "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" and "Shchedryk", 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.