Friday, March 25 Composers Datebook is produced by American Public Media in association with the American Composers Forum with support from the The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. SYNOPSIS: Shostakovich in America … MUSIC PLAYED ON TODAY’S PROGRAM: Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 – 1975): Symphony No. 5 USSR Cultural Ministry Symphony; Gennady Rozhdestvensky, cond. MCA 32128 ALSO ON THIS DATE: Births: 1699—German opera composer Johann Hasse, in Bergedorf, near Hamburg; 1867—Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini, in Parma; 1881—Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, in Nagyszentmiklós; 1882—English composer Haydn Wood, in Slaithwaite; Deaths: 1918—French composer Claude Debussy, age 55, in Paris; Premieres: 1724 — Bach: Sacred Cantata No. 182 (“Himmelskönig, sei willkommen”) performed on the…