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I don't think this really applies to composing, or anything about which one can be passionate. A passion, to me, refers to something specifically specialised and important to you. You can easily appreciate / understand / revere / study "music in general" (whatever that means) without having to be passionate about every single genre, style, instrument, etc. Writers don't need to be passionate about poetry AND prose. Sculptors don't need to be passionate about marble AND metal. Painters don't need to be passionate about watercolours AND oils. My PASSION lies in a very specific niche; however, that doesn't mean I don't love other musics, or that I don't appreciate creativity and artistry in any/all musics. If you prefer, we can abandon the micro-view of passion in lieu of a macro-view. Skipping your awkward "generalised specifics" (i.e. need passion for Rap and Bebop and Fado and so on) let's have a more appropriate all-encompassing view. Composers are passionate about sounds. (regardless of style) Writers are passionate about words. Sculptors; shapes. Artists; colour. ...or something.

And what if they're not? What if they are just into mid-20th century music and find anything else lame and trite? Or what if one composer is just passionate about Tchaikovksy or Mahler and thinks that jazz, pop or experimental music are a waste of time? It's his loss if he's not into anything else to "expand his musical horizons" - but does it really detract from his composition's quality if he knows his thing and knows how to do it? Is Tchaikovsky less of a major composer just because he disliked both Brahms and Wagner? As usual, just wondering...

It's a program symphony, kinda like your Adriana thing. A friend of mine wrote a comical story about a high school symphony orchestra, and it's basically in 5 movements, Intro, The Evil Ones, The Overdramatic Ones, The Romantic Ones, and epilogue. Basically, this is a bunch of little stories going on, and a bunch of conflicts (2 people get killed) but everyone finally settles for the final concert. So, this is for symphony orchestra, because the story is about a symphony orchestra, and the waltz is supposed to be for "The Romantic Ones" which is a combination of all the love stories (there's a cute gay relationship between the pic. and bassoon, 2 cellos love/hate each other, there's this big love triangle thing in the brass, and the trombone's a cat in heat), so...there.

that's sort of like saying how does a non-chef eat food? They can taste the same thing as chefs do, chefs just know what's in it that makes it special.