Mr. Trump’s team has secured performances by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, the 16-year-old Jackie Evancho and the Radio City Rockettes. They are expected to dribble out more artists soon.

The ‘soft sensuality’ of Washington, D.C., or some such

Meh, they didn’t want Charlotte Church anyway.

Tom Barrack Jr., a close friend of Mr. Trump’s who is planning the inauguration, told reporters in Trump Tower on Tuesday that Mr. Trump was not looking for “A-listers” to perform anyway.

“We’re fortunate in that we have the greatest celebrity in the world, which is the president-elect,” Mr. Barrack said. He added, “so what we’ve done instead of trying to surround him with what people consider A-listers is we are going to surround him with the soft sensuality of the place. It’s a much more poetic cadence than having a circuslike celebration that’s a coronation.”

“Soft sensuality” is not generally what comes to mind when one thinks of Washington, D.C., in January, but the city is changing.

A delay for Trump’s education secretary choice

Senate Democrats have been complaining that there are too many hearings for Mr. Trump’s nominees on Wednesday — at one point there were six scheduled — and Republicans, eager to get Mr. Trump’s team in place, have relented a bit.

They moved Betsy DeVos, his pick for education secretary, to Jan. 17. Ms. DeVos’s wealth and complicated finances have made the process of unraveling her potential conflicts of interest through the Office of Government Ethics a bit more complicated, so she was perhaps the most logical person to bump.