 
The Company
MAJOR & minor PRODUCTIONS LTD. is principally a music publishing company. We publish music scores, music books, produce Compact discs, Videocassettes, DVD‘s, restore old recordings to CD, manage Composers and Performers and advise on Copyright matters.
Our main focus is Calypso and the Steelband, the indigenous music of Trinidad and Tobago. What started as a hobby for founder Alvin C. Daniell has blossomed into this company. His objective is to preserve the music of this country in a form that will last centuries. His argument is that we play the music of the masters because it is scored.
The company has scored Steelband Panorama arrangements, popular calypsos of the last ten years, produced compilation Compact Discs since 1996, and produced Videocassettes of Trinidad’s Carnival. The company manages calypsonians Kurt Allen, Eunice Peters, and the band Caribbean Vizion. The company is a Publisher Member of the Copyright Organisation of Trinidad and Tobago and publishes songs composed by a number of artists. The company encourages young composers and advises them on preserving the copyright of their songs. The COTT Publisher of the year award for 2000 was awarded to the company at COTT‘‘s annual awards held in November 2001. The company has been consistently among the top three publisher memebers of COTT. The latest venture of the company is record restoration to facilitate archivists and personal collectors of music.
Our President
 ALVIN C. DANIELL BSc., MSc.
Alvin Daniell is a qualified Mechanical Engineer by profession and Director/Owner of the Air Conditioning contracting firm, Comfort Engineering Limited, which was founded in 1979. Despite this he has been involved in music almost all of his life. He is a composer, television presenter on cultural events, and has served as an adjudicator for Calypso Competitions, Pan Competitions, National and Caribbean Song Festivals and various other cultural competitions in Trinidad and throughout the Caribbean. He has conducted workshops on Calypso and Pan in Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, St. Lucia, Antigua and Miami.
In the seventies he began composing calypsos and is best known for his joint compositions with Ray Holman of "Pan on the Move" and "Pan on the Run". In the eighties he also teamed up with Len "Boogsie" Sharpe to produce a number of hits including "Rags to Riches", "Carnival is Bacchanal" and "I like to beat pan". In the nineties he co-wrote with "Boogsie" the well known "Mind yuh Business" and "Misbehave" which were sung by Denyse Plummer. He also worked with Pelham Goddard to compose the prize winne "Happy Song" and "Good News" sung by Roger George.
He was the Chairman of the Copyright Organisation of Trinidad and Tobago from 1995 to 1999 and currently he is the President of MAJOR & minor PRODUCTIONS LTD.
Between 1992 and 2000 he produced and presented weekly the popular local programme "Calypso Showcase" on national television station, TTT, which featured interviews, video clips and a live call in segment of entertainment personnel. He maintains a comprehensive database on calypso and steelband and he also pioneered the local effort of computer notation and publishing of calypsos and steelband Panorama arrangements in Trinidad and Tobago. On May 15, 2003 he launched "Pan Potpourri" a new radio programme on Pan on Power 102 FM, a local radio station. It ran for 28 weeks. He was recognised for his contribution to Culture by the Government of Trinidad and Tobago when he received the Humming Bird Medal, a National Award, in 1995.
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