he's been classical music royalty ever since. ♪ ♪ when "60 minutes" first met daniel barenboim 20 yearsund that he was a maestro in perpetual motion. >> simon: i've been following you around for almost a week now. i'm exhausted. >> barenboim: yeah, you look tired. ( laughter ) >> simon: and anyone who spends a week with daniel barenboim will discover that he's not only a musical genius, but a 56-year- old child. ♪ ♪ >> williams: at 75, this older barenboim is a more sober character than he used to be, more political. he's still giving recitals as a concert pianist, and he has his day job as music director of the state opera in berlin. but recently, he also opened the barenboim-said academy, a conservatory built in this redesigned warehouse in downtown berlin which, just like his orchestra, the divan, brings together students from israel and across the middle east. >> sadra fayyaz: maestro talked about it in the diversity. >> williams: violist sadra fayyaz studies at the academy and plays in the divan. he's from iran, a sworn enemy of israel. as a kid, he grew up buying black market vide

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