How can I run iTunes to manage my iPod music and still manage my iPhone / iPad?

Help! I ditched iTunes 11 on my desktop PC a year ago or so, and reverted to 10.7, because of the crazy decision Apple made to remove "Composer" as a category, thereby making iTunes useless for anyone with a classical music collection.
That is painful, because 10.7 doesn't allow me to upgrade my iPhone Apps. But at least I have my music...
However, last week I bought an iPad Air. When I connected it to my iTunes 10.7 I was given short shrift. IOS 7 will only talk to iTunes 11.
I hit on what I thought was an ingenious solution. I loaded iTunes 11 onto my laptop PC. I thought I would then be able to transfer my iPhone's affections (and apps) to the laptop, and then connect the iPad to the laptop too. OK, so I had no option but to "upgrade" my iPhone to IOS 7.
So now I find that my desktop (iTunes 10.7) can talk to neither my iPhone nor my iPad.
My iPhone will connect to the laptop, but cannot establish any app linkage. My iPad remains unused.
One of the things I used to love about Apple products was that everything just WORKED. Please can someone suggest a way forward for me. Has iTunes 11 been fixed to deal with Composers, so I can upgrade to it? I can't copy my entire music database to my laptop because the disk is not big enough. Solutions eagerly awaited!

Thanks for the reply, but I need a way forward. Here are the options I can envisage and I would find it really helpful to have their feasibility commented on - or better options suggested.
1) My ideal solution. I sever my iPhone's connection to my desktop system so that I can run iTunes 11 on my laptop and sync iPhone and iPad to that. Problem: I don't know how to sync the iPhone to the laptop.
2) Upgrade my desktop to iTunes 11, completely destroying my classical music collection's backup on my 120GB iPod classic. This is OK so long as I never need to reload the iPod.
3) is there a way I can somehow freeze my iTunes 10.7 on my desktop and then upgrade to iTunes 11? That would also be an ideal outcome, because I don't add new music to my iPod because it's full.
Any suggestions warmly welcomed!

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