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The College of New Jersey Magazine
WORDS
Liz Leyden
PICTURES
Peter Murphy
" I'm
lIstenIng."
Terence Odonkor '22 hears much love, joy,
and success in the music around him.
ORCHESTRATOR TERENCE ODONKOR'S rapid
rise in the theater industry doesn't surprise music
professor Kathleen Mitchell at all. Odonkor, she says,
was as an ever-smiling student. A talented musician
who anchored TCNJ's transcendent saxophone
quartet. An unflappable student manager overseeing
the sound boards at Mayo Concert Hall. A self-taught
arranger juggling compositions for every corner of the
music department, from the clarinet and wind
ensembles to the Trentones and TCNJ Rocks On!
But for Mitchell, one memory in particular stands
out. It was the day she encountered Odonkor in the
