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==Introduction==
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''Anjan Chattopadhyay'', Sitar Maestro was born in 1960 in an aristocratic family, in [[Calcutta, India]]. He was brought up in an environment of soft, sweet and serene [[Indian Classical Music]].He was initiated to the art of sitar playing by his elder brother,a veteran surbahar player,Pandit Gourisankar Chattopadhyay,a disciple of Pandit Birendra Kishore RoyChowdhury.In addition to that he started taking his futther training from Surasree Kalyani Roy,a global reputed sitarist and one of the senior disciples of Ustad Vilayat Khan.He also had his lessons on the vocal music from late Shree Muktipada Datta,a representative of kirana Gharana.Anjan also had his fortune of having the training of the welknown Tabla player late Ustad Shaukat Ali Khan of Farukhabad gharana.
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|colspan=2| '''Minnesota North Stars'''
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|| '''Played''' || [[1967]] to [[1993]]
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|| '''Home ice''' || [[Metropolitan Sports Center]]
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|| '''Based in''' || [[Bloomington, Minnesota|Minneapolis - St. Paul]]
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|| '''Colors''' || Green, gold, white
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|| '''League''' || [[National Hockey League]]
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== Perfomance ==
The '''Minnesota North Stars''' were a team in the [[National Hockey League]] between 1967 and 1993. In the fall of 1993, the franchise was moved to [[Dallas, Texas]], where it is now known as the [[Dallas Stars]]. The team's colors (for most of their history) were green, gold and white.
Anjan has performed in hundreds of concerts in India and abroad. Among them worthy of mentions are the concerts in
:'''Founded:''' [[1967-68 NHL season|1967]]
:'''Arena:''' [[Metropolitan Sports Center]]
* India, The Dover Lane Music Conference,
:'''Uniform colors:''' Green, gold, white
* India International Center,
:'''Logo design:'''
* All India Music Festival,
:'''[[Stanley Cup]] Finals Appearances:''' 1
* Salt Lake Music Conference,
:'''[[Stanley Cup]]s won:''' ''none''
* National Council of Performing Arts,
:'''One of the NHL's [[Original Six#Expansion six|Expansion six]] franchises''', along with the [[St. Louis Blues (hockey)|St. Louis Blues]], [[Los Angeles Kings]], [[Philadelphia Flyers]], [[Pittsburgh Penguins]], and [[Oakland Seals]].
* West Bangal Government State Music Academy,
== History ==
* Tansen Music Conference,
* Alliance Francaise,
* Ustad Bahadur Khan Music Conference,
* Swami Haridas Music Conference,
* Shree Aurobindo Ashram. Calcutta,
* Ustad Amir Khan Music Conference. Calcutta,
* Swar Sadhna Samiti. Mumbai.
* Pandit Montu Banerjee memorial music conference,
* Sankalp Music Festival. Sagar, M.P.
* Guru Poornima Festival, Patna,
== Awards, Honors ==
Starting with the [[1967-68 NHL season|1967-1968 season]], the NHL expanded from its long-time base of six teams (the so-called [[Original Six]]) to twelve teams. As a well-known hockey hotbed, [[Minnesota]] was the natural site for a franchise. With the new [[Metropolitan Sports Center]] in Bloomington for a home arena and behind a skilled management team, the North Stars had respectable success in the early years. Although the fledgling team suffered an unprecedented calamity with the death of forward [[Bill Masterton]] in its first season -- the only death in NHL history resulting from an on-ice injury -- the club prospered behind goaltending duo [[Gump Worsley|Lorne "Gump" Worsley]] and [[Cesare Maniago]], defenseman and [[Captain hockey)|captain]] [[Ted Harris (hockey player)|Ted Harris]], high-scoring winger [[Bill Goldsworthy]] and other quality players such as [[Barry Gibbs]], [[Jude Drouin]], [[J.P. Parise]], [[Danny Grant]], and [[Dennis Hextall]].
In his musical career, Anjan has got numerous awards, and felicitations.
The chronology of awards are as follows:
# In 1986, he was awarded the prestigious first prize in All India Music Competition organized by the State Music Academy of West Bengal Government.
# In 1987, he was felicitated with the prestigious title ‘SURMANI’ after performing at Kal-Ke-Kalakar music festival in Mumbai.
# In 1988, he was awarded with the title ‘Sangeet Visharad’ by Pracheen Kalakendra, Chandigarh. In the same year he got ‘Sangeet Kriya Visharad’ title from Sourav Academy Board. On this occasion, the renowned violinist Pandit V.G.Jog felicitated him.
# In 1990, during his tour to U.S.A, the Academy of Indian Music and Fine Arts and UMBC felicitated him with the certificate of Achievement.
# In that year he got the rare opportunity to be honored with the GOVERNOR’S CITATION from the Honorable Governor of New Jersey – Mr Jim Florio.
# In 1994, Padmabhushan Pandit [[Jnanprakash Ghosh]], one of the music legends of India, proclaimed Anjan as ‘one of the most talented young sitar players of India”.
# Swar-Sadhna Samity of Mumbai and Rotary Club of Lake Green Kolkata, honored him after an enthralling performance of him.
# In 2004, Anjan has got the prestigious ‘GOVERNOR’S CITATION’ from the honourable Governor of the State of Maryland after performing his sitar recital in presence of the honourable Senator Mr Paul Sarbane.
== See also ==
By the mid-Seventies, however, with Worsley and Harris retired, the North Stars had fallen on hard times, finishing with perennially poor records and usually out of the playoffs. However, in 1978, the struggling team was bought by the owners of the NHL [[Cleveland Barons]], who merged the two teams in an unprecedented move. A few skilled players -- notably [[goaltender]] [[Gilles Meloche]] and forwards [[Al MacAdam]] and [[Mike Fidler]] -- bolstered the lineup; furthermore, Minnesota had drafted the eventual [[Calder Trophy]] winner as rookie of the year, [[Bobby Smith]]. With the subsequent additions of fine new players such as Minnesota native and ex-1980 Olympian [[Neal Broten]] and sniper [[Dino Ciccarelli]], the North Stars had five straight winning seasons starting in [[1979-80 NHL season|1979-1980]], even reaching the Stanley Cup finals in [[1980-81 NHL season|1981]].
[[Ravi_Shankar|Pandit Ravi Shankar]]
[[Vilayat_Khan|Ustad Vilayat Khan]]
Thereafter, though, success would elude the North Stars. After 1984, the franchise would only have one more winning season in Minnesota, although playing in the weak [[Norris Division]] meant that they made the playoffs more often than not. While the Nineties saw the franchise draft what would turn out to be their greatest player -- forward [[Mike Modano]] -- chronic attendance problems spurred the owners to threaten to move the club to San Jose, much against the league's wishes. A compromise was implemented for the [[1990-91 NHL season|1990-1991 season]] where the North Stars would be split into two squads, the then-current owners receiving some players and an expansion franchise for the Bay Area (the [[San Jose Sharks]]) -- an irony considering the merger over a decade before with the NHL's previous Bay Area franchise. A new ownership team took over Minnesota, led by a man who would become notorious in the annals of Minnesota hockey, [[Norman Green]].
== Source ==
In that 1991 season, despite a losing record in the regular season, the Cinderella North Stars made it all the way to the [[Stanley Cup]] finals. The team fought hard against the eventual champion [[Pittsburgh Penguins]] before being obliterated 8-0 in the final game of the series; the most one-sided deciding game defeat in a Stanley Cup final since the [[Ottawa Silver Seven]] defeated the [[Dawson City Nuggets]] 23-2 in 1905.
* Sankarlal Bhattacherjee, Writer and Journalist, ABP Group, Kolkata, India.
*[http://www.aimrec.com/AnjanChattopadhyay/ Anjan Chattopadhyay Official Website]
The shocking loss seemed to let the air out of the franchise for good. With mounting financial and legal problems, Green demanded concessions that the area and state were unwilling to give, and moved the team to Dallas in the fall of 1993.
Subsequently, in the next wave of league expansion, the [[Twin Cities]] were granted a new franchise, the [[Minnesota Wild]], which took the ice starting in [[2000-01 NHL season|2000]].
==Notable players==
=== [[Hockey Hall of Fame|Hall of Famers]] ===
* [[Leo Boivin]]
* [[Harry Howell]]
* [[John Mariucci]]
* [[Gump Worsley]]
=== Not to be forgotten ===
* [[Brian Bellows]]
* [[Dino Ciccarelli]]
* [[Gary Edwards (hockey player)|Gary Edwards]]
* [[Dave Gagner]]
* [[Danny Grant]]
* [[Brian Lawton]]
* [[Paul Shmyr]]
* [[Bobby Smith]]
* [[Mike Modano]]
* [[Neal Broten]]
* [[Cesare Maniago]]
=== Team captains===
''Note: This list does not include [[Dallas Stars]] and [[Oakland Seals]] captains''
* [[Bob Woytowich]] 1967-68
* [[Elmer Vasko]] 1968-69
* [[Claude Larose]] 1969-70
* [[Ted Harris (hockey player)|Ted Harris]] 1970-74
* [[Bill Goldsworthy]] 1974-76
* [[Bill Hogaboam]] 1976-77
* [[Nick Beverly]] 1977-78
* [[Jean-Paul Parise]] 1978-79
* [[Paul Shmyr]] 1979-81
* [[Tim Young]] 1981-82
* [[Craig Hartsburg]] 1982-89
* [[Curt Giles]] 1989-91
* [[Mark Tinordi]] 1991-93
=== Retired Numbers (in Minnesota) ===
*8 [[Bill Goldsworthy]] 1967 - 1977
*19 [[Bill Masterton]] 1967 - 1968
==See also==
*[[Dallas Stars]]
*[[Oakland Seals|Cleveland Barons, California Golden Seals, California Seals]]
*[[List of defunct NHL teams]]
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