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Ironically the liner notes of the album say the moon landing sequence was the one Kubrick hated the most.
That was the 'Moon Rocket Bus'. 
It's interesting you prefer 'Dawn of Man' to 'The Foraging'. It's a bit insistent on activity that's non-existent for my liking.
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The Moon Rocket bus is definitely the scene where they're flying over the surface of the moon, which is covered in the final film by Ligeti's 'Lux Aeterna'. Just to be sure we're not talking cross purposes, I'm talking about the sequence which covers the flight from the space station to the moon colony - accompanied by 'Blue Danube' in the film. The liner notes from Intrada are clear on that.
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I never said that, what I said is that the end of dawn of man fits the first kill scene to a T and I don't think that can be accidental, so I used it there.
The Foraging is actually a great piece of film music, as I said earlier it's pretty much a North/Kubrick Koyaanisqatsi. It has a similar level of impact and originality, for portraying a landscape on film.
Ah, interesting. I did misunderstand you.
Years before I heard the original tracks, I tried synchronising Goldsmith's recording of North's music to the film, and I tried the alternate track for the second scene where the apes fight at the waterhole. I synched it in the same scene as you did, but with different reference points. (I also used another part of it in the 'Bones' sequence.) It fit pretty well, so I was surprised to learn that it was an alternate for 'The Foraging', a scene it doesn't really fit at all.
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I don't think so, that cue doesn't really fit that scene when I tried it, it really working for the moon landing though.
It's been a while since I've watched the film with the North score edited in, but from memory the 'Moon Rocket Bus' goes with the Moon Rocket bus scene in the following way:
- Begins with energetic strings and ghostly soprano as the ship shoots over the surface of the moon in a series of exterior shots;
- Soprano fades and more Ligeti-esque choir comes in as we cut to the interior of the rocket and track back into the rear area.
- Hint of optimism in the dialogue scoring, with a solo horn part bestowing a subtle glow on the endeavors of these men.
- The soprano returns on the cut back to shuttle exterior.
- North employs interesting clusters for the descent of the rocket to a landing position. His notation here called for some very unusual performance tricks, from memory.
- The cue should end as the Ligeti requiem segues in.
If you're using an NTSC dvd, you should be able to sync the cue up immediately following the conference room scene on the moon and observe these points of synchronisation.
Again, Intrada's notes are very clear on this point, and I'd be surprised if they were so far off given Nick Redman's history with the project.
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Possibly, I just don't think the music works with the dialogue scene in the moon rocket well. If it were up to me I'd leave that part unscored.
Well, as you say, Kubrick hated it.
(North scored another dialogue scene, of course - Heywood Floyd's introduction to the international space station.)
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Gotta love revisionist who think they can improve upon one of the world greatest directors.
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Shame he never was able to score it all.
