Marilyn Kind Currier’s works have been performed around the United States in venues such as Carnegie Hall in New York City and the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Her major works include a concerto for violin, a concerto for viola, Vanzetti Mass - a work for chorus, orchestra and soloists dealing with the Sacco and Vanzetti case, combining the text of the Latin Mass with letters of Vanzetti written in prison - and several settings of poetry of Ted Hughes.

The Boston Globe wrote of her music that “its impact is immediate and spontaneous," adding that "Currier is a composer whose music is ‘for’ the instrumental and vocal means she uses, not arbitrarily assigned to it. It ‘sounds’ as a result, and strikes the listener as real.”

Her choral work Quadrille for Two Marriages, which sets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, and contrasts their marriage with that of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, was considered “very striking” by New York Times critic Raymond Ericson, who also noted that in this work "her harmonic vocabulary is extended,” calling it both “complex” and yet “sensitively treated in mood and structure.”

Her Sonata for Guitar was composed for guitarist Eliot Fisk and premiered by him at Carnegie Recital Hall. Composer George Crumb wrote that it was "beautifully written for the instrument," and the New York Times said it was "well written for the guitar," and noted that the work "makes fine use of its introspective nature." The piece was later recorded by guitarist David Tanenbaum for Neuma Records, and played by him in Germany, Sweden and the United States.