I will second your motions on all of that. I have become my parents, no doubt about it. They have both passed on, and I could not think of two better people to emulate.
I too am a musician, have played drums for ovedr 40 years and bass for about 20. And I too love the classics; Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner and Strauss, Tchaikovsky et al.
I do have to admit though that I absolutely cannot identify with the utterly unsyncopated noise which passes for music nowadays. My daughters, 23 and 25, still like some of the music I do, because they grew up listening to it, but I simply cannot listen to any of the groups they like. My parents were the same way. And DO NOT EVEN GET ME STARTED OR “RAP” OR “HIP HOP”. That is not even music, I don’t even have a word to adequately describe it without referring to the decomposing excrement of some animal.
I hear you as far as Hip Hip or Rap. However I apply your evaluation of them just to the lyrics. The underlying rhythm, tones, still give me pleasure. And I wish I had learned the bass, electric or acoustic. Gives me chills. Mine was piano and trumpet.