"Morning Becomes Eclectic"

       "Morning Becomes Eclectic"?  What kind of radio station would gamble to have that kind of title for a music program?  The associations are wonderfully ... high order, you might say:  a play that's probably little known by many, and a word that's probably known by people with some vocabulary, but not by most.  Put 'em together in a crazy, punning, awkward, master-pastiche; they spell KCRW.

       A Santa Monica FM station, public radio.  It produces extraordinary music and talk programming throughout the day.


       Mourning Becomes Electra,  Eugene O'Neill's 1931 modern version of Aeschylus's Oresteia, Electra being a female character.
       "Mourning" loses its "u" to identify an early a.m. radio program.
       "Becomes":  "is suitable to," but also here, "comes into existence."
       "Eclectic"-- (Greek ex, "out," legein, "gather") 1. selecting out from various sources what's best; 2.  heterogeneous.