If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.
There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.
Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.
So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.
I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.
Taste is changing, style is changing, and players abilities are changing.