It's all a continuum. I can't see how any orchestra can play Bruch that doesn't play Bach as well. There is also a lot of first-rate music and there are some real masterpieces. I think we're at a period when the multiplicity of styles is almost alarmingly great. Part of it is that music is much more widely available, of course.
All music is balkanized now.
There are so many. For English music at the moment, I don't think there has been been a time since William Byrd when there was as much talent around. John Adams is a close friend and a wonderful composer. Sometimes I like to put him on the same program with Elliott Carter because I know it annoys both of them so much. I think it's terrific that America has two such great composers at the same time.