Tenor Vinson Cole’s songs were pleasant but unspectacular at Kennedy Center

On Wednesday night at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater, Vocal Arts D.C. presented an old-fashioned recital by a journeyman singer. It was completely pleasant and completely unspectacular. Vinson Cole, the tenor who performed, has been hovering around the upper echelons of the opera world for most of a long career. At 62, his youthful demeanor has been offset by the encroachment of white hair, and he took the stage with the mien, and the velvet-dressing-gown-like jacket, of an elder st...