If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.
Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.
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.
I think the quality of something like the Beveridge, for instance, will have a life of its own.
Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.