not for barenboim.ll at it, and he's embarked on a second act-- starting his own orchestra for young musicians from israel and the muslim world, and taking on a subject that's as contentious as it gets, the conflict in the middle east. his work has earned him palestinian citizenship and charges of treachery from some of his fellow israelis. but as we found out, controversy hasn't slowed barenboim down. he seems to thrive on it. ♪ ♪ of all the orchestras daniel barenboim leads around the world, this might be the one that moves him the most. some of the young musicians on stage at this summer concert in berlin are iranian, syrian, palestinian. others are israelis, all playing in perfect harmony even as their --even as their governments threaten to destroy one another. it's called the west-eastern divan orchestra. ♪ ♪ is it surprising, really, that if you bring very good arab musicians and very good israeli musicians together, that they play together? they make... >> barenboim: of course it is. surprising

who had this wonderful idea of putting all these shock ons to gether i think it was daniel barenboim in the first place and he was exploring a little bit all the more and less known versions and there are probably millions of them all together and i think you made the choice and it's a great idea because the chicago is such a it's such that it's like for me the ultimate bar it's got everything in it and then to hear it on all these different instruments i think i would have really liked that. it's a shame you can't come to the concert are you sure you can i mean come on sorry you can do that but i mean by himself at the time he was he was composing and recomposing and rearranging is on one charge those in multiple versions i think he would have loved it do you think that works for some instruments better than others because i mean you have the pure shock on you know that is your piece the violin is the king of the shack on do you think it works in these other words you know i'm sure that i've been working on this piece of music for thirty more than thirty years even my days are the t