Focus on this artwork and analyze the Kendall Band Preservation Society.
Over the years, the nearby Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has expanded into Kendall Square, as principal sponsor and collaborator in the burgeoning high-tech innovation district. In 2010,  a group of MIT students were brought together to repair and conserve the Kendall Band. The idea for the group came from Seth G. Parker, a principal at a Massachusetts based energy consulting firm. He got in touch with the head of the Concerts Office in Music and Theater Arts at MIT, Clarise E. Snyder. She in turn contacted Paul Matisse and the MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering, who recommended that instructor Michael J. Tarkanian be supervisor of the project to repair the sculpture.About 20 students were gathered to work on the cataloging and repair of the instruments, with seven of them chosen to actually dismantle the work. The students dubbed themselves "The Kendall Band Preservation Society".In April 2010, the Kendall Band Preservation Society started dismantling the Kendall Band. Richard A. Davey, then general manager of the MBTA, stopped in to speak to the students and wish them luck in repairing the artwork. The students taped up signs in the same fashion as Paul Matisse did when he repaired the Band, and comments were again scrawled in the margins. A student representative of the group said, “I think we will be able to get the instruments functional over the span of a few months, but our longer term goal is to complete [sic] refurbish and document each instrument. That will be a much longer project, on the order of years.”As of May 2011, Pythagoras was restored to operation from the inbound platform, while work continued on the other two instruments.Since then, the sculptures have again fallen into disrepair, and were being restored to operation as of February 2018. Tarkanian has handed over responsibility for maintenance to Steve Drasco, a physics instructor in the MIT Concourse educational group. As of June 2023, only the Pythagoras tubular chimes operated from the outbound platform were connected and functional.
Paul Matisse Kendall Square MBTA Richard A. Davey Pythagoras Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts